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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, July 3, 1817. [6th s. of George, solicitor and banker.] B. Jan. [27], 1801. at Melksham, Wilts. [School, Marlborough Grammar.] ' Matric. Michs. 1817; Scholar, 1817; B.A. 1821; M.A. 1828. Ord. deacon (Salisbury) Aug. 1, 1824; priest (Lincoln, Litt. dim. from Salisbury), Feb. 27, 1825; C. of Melksham, Wilts., 1824-5. C.-in-C. of Gillingham, Dorset, 1825-9. V. of Fordington, 1829-80. Chaplain to the troops in Dorchester barracks for some years; built, partly for their use, Christ Church, West Fordington, 1846. Conducted a private school in the vicarage and the adjoining house until 1859. Invented the Dry Earth System of Sanitation (patent dated May 28, 1860), and published several works on the subject. Married, July 1, 1824, Mary M. Evans. Author, Scraps of Sacred Verse; Barrack Sermons; Scriptural Church Teaching; Rules for Reading Scripture; Sixty Original Hymns; Narrative of the Conversion of a Chinese Physician; Our Home Heathen; A Letter on the Dry Earth System; The Science of Manure as the Food of Plants; The Advantages of the Dry Earth System; Land for the Million to Rent; Self-Supporting Schools for the Middle Classes; The Testimony of a Portion of the Vegetable Creation to the God of the Scriptures; Scripture Interpreted on Scripture Principles, etc. Died Feb. 3, 1880, at Fordington vicarage. M.I. in Fordington church. Father of Charles W. (1853); Frederick J. (1850), George E. (1844), Handley C. G. (1860), Henry J. (next) and Horace M. (1854). (Crockford; D.N.B.; H. C. G. Moule, Memories of a Vicarage.)