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Adm. pens. (age 18) at PEMBROKE, Jan. 20, 1817. Eldest s. of the Rev. Arthur William (1787), D.D., of London. B. [Aug. 29, 1798], at Ugley, Essex. School, Christ's Hospital. ' Matric. Michs. 1817; Bell Scholar 1818; Norrisian prize, 1821; Hulsean prize, 1821; B.A. 1821; M.A. 1824. Assistant Master at Christ's Hospital, 1822-32. Ord. priest (London) May 29, 1825. V. of Great Wigston, Leics., 1834-58. V. of St Mary's, Green Ponds, Tasmania, 1858-63. Married, Sarah, dau. of William Clarke, of East Bergholt, Suffolk, and had issue. Author, Pentalogia Graeca; Analecta Theologica; Greek Grammar to the New Testament; Belgium since the Revolution of 1830; A History of Christ's Hospital. Edited The Iliad, Euripides and Justin Martyr's Apologia, etc. Died Mar. 23, 1863, at Green Ponds. Brother of Arthur (1817). (Christ's Hospital Exhibitioners; Boase, III. 1022; Crockford; Burke, P. and B.; D.N.B.)