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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, May 14, 1785. B. in Beds. ' Matric. Michs. 1785. Kept four terms. Ord. deacon (Chester, Litt. dim. from Bristol), May 4, 1787; priest (Lincoln), Dec. 19, 1790; C. of Houghton Conquest, Beds., 1790-9. V. of Sharnbrook, 1799-1800. R. of Armthorpe, Yorks., 1801-7. R. of Orlingbury, Northants., 1807-24. Chaplain to the Duke of York. Married, May 13, 1799, Elizabeth Susanna Frederica (Countess of Wartensleben), widow of Joseph Ewart (formerly H.M. Plenipotentiary at Berlin), at Weybridge, Surrey. Author of a Hymn of Thanksgiving on the occasion of the late Victories and for other signal national Mercies and Deliverances (1814); and other Poems. Died Oct. 1, 1824, at Ramsgate, aged 68. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 553; Scott, MSS.; H. G. Harrison.)