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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, June 6, 1770. Of Staffs. S. and h. of Henry, of Longcroft Hall, Staffs. B. Mar. 1752. School, Repton. ' Matric. Michs. 1770; Scholar, 1770; B.A. 1774; M.A. 1784. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Dec. 18, 1774; priest (Lichfield and Coventry) June 2, 1776; C. of Sheepy, Leics., 1774. C. of Aston, Warws., 1776. R. of Oxnead and V. of Buxton, Norfolk, 1777-1801. R. of Lyng with Whitwell, 1784-94. Minister of King's Bromley, Staffs. Of Longcroft Hall, Yoxall. Succeeded his father, June 22, 1782. Married Margaret Elizabeth, dau. of Rear-Admiral Hamar, May 18, 1775 (by whom he had 17 children). Died Feb. 10, 1803, aged 51, at Longcroft Hall. Father of Francis C. (1795) and Thomas (1815; CCE8323). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV; Shaw, Staffs., I. 102; Burke, L.G.)Res date for Buxton from record for Oxnead