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Adm. pens. (age 16) at TRINITY, Apr. 3, 1799. [Only] s. of Charles [Officer in the 40th Regt.], of Buntingford, Herts. [B. there, Dec. 12, 1784.] School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1800; Scholar, 1801; B.A. (7th Wrangler) 1804; 2nd Chancellor's medal; M.A. 1807; B.D. 1818; D.D. per Lit. Reg., 1822. Fellow, 1805. Assistant Tutor, 1807-15; Tutor, 1815-23. Regius Professor of Greek, 1808-23. Adm. ad eundem at Oxford, 1831. Ord. deacon 1809; priest, 1810. Whitehall Preacher, 1812. Dean of Peterborough, 1822-30. R. of Fiskerton, Lincs., 1822-32. R. of Peakirk with Glinton, Northants., 1829. Canon of Westminster, 1830-56. Bishop of Gloucester, 1830-56; of Gloucester and Bristol, 1836-56. As Professor of Greek advocated the establishment of a Classical Tripos. Married, 1823, Jane, only dau. of H. Hughes, of Nuneaton. Edited Euripides, Hippolytus; R. Porsoni Adversaria; Museum Criticum; Euripides, Alcestis (Greek, with Latin Notes); author, A Vindication of the University of Cambridge from the Reflections of Sir J. E. Smith; The Life of R. Bentley, etc. Died June 6, 1856, at The Palace, Stapleton, near Bristol, aged 71. Buried in the north aisle of Westminster Abbey. M.I. of St James's, Westminster. Father of Charles J. (1842). (Boase, II. 923; Northants. Clergy; Foster, Index Eccles.; D.N.B.)