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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, July 3, 1806. Of Beds. [S. of Thomas, Esq., of Odell, and of Harrold Hall, Beds. B. 1788.] ' Matric. Michs. 1806; Scholar; B.A. 1810. R. of Cowsby, Yorks., 1830-63. R. of Odell, Beds., 1833-63 (but according to Foster, Index Eccles., he was instituted R. of Cowsby, Sept. 17, 1816, and R. of Odell, Mar. 23, 1829). Married (1) Elizabeth Mary, dau. of the Rev. James Barnard, of Combe Flory, Somerset, Aug. 1813; (2) Maria, dau. of Benjamin Longuet, of Bath, and widow of Richard Orlebar, of Hinwick, Beds., Oct. 2, 1845 (see Burke, L.G., sub Orlebar). [His eldest son, Vere John Alston, died at Odell rectory, Apr. 27, 1851, aged 33.] Died May, 1863. Brother of Rowland (1800). (W. M. Harvey, Willey Hundred, 361; Stemmata Alstoniana, 76, 401; Crockford, 1860.)