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Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Nov. 21, 1795. S. of Charles [linen draper], of Bond Street, London. [Of a Huguenot family, of Caen; his great-grandfather fled to England in 1702.] B. Apr. 26, 1779. School, Hyde Abbey School, near Winchester. ' Matric. Michs. 1798; Scholar, 1798; Craven scholar, 1799; B.A. (4th Wrangler) 1800; 1st Chancellor's medal, 1800; Members' prize (2nd), 1802; M.A. 1803. Fellow, 1802. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, 1802. Called to the Bar, 1806; but deafness compelled him to abandon the law. Tutor to the sons of the Bishop of Lincoln, 1808. Ord. deacon (Bristol) 1812; priest, 1812; R. of St Paul's, Shadwell, 1812-43. R. of Darfield, Yorks. 1812 25. C. of Wombwell, 1812-25. Preb. of Lincoln, 1812-61. Mathematical Professor and Dean in the East India College, Haileybury, 1813-37; Principal, 1837-43; resigned. Married, 1814, Sophia, dau. of Mark Hodgson, of the Bow brewery, inventor of India pale ale. Author, Considerations on Miracles; Life of Thomas F. Middleton, Bishop of Calcutta; Life of Wicliff; Life of Cranmer; Life of Laud, etc., and of nearly eighty articles in the British Critic. Resided latterly at Brighton, where he died Jan. 25, 1861. The Le Bas prize, to perpetuate his memory at Cambridge, was founded in 1848, chiefly by his old Haileybury pupils. (Boase, II. 346; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1861, I. 347.)