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In VENN
Adm. pens. (age 16) at CAIUS, Nov. 12, 1790. S. and h. of Anthony John, of Brandiston, Norfolk. Bapt. there Apr. 17, 1774. School, Kirkheaton, Yorks. (Mr Sunderland). ' Matric. Michs. 1791; Scholar, 1791-97; Prizeman; B.A. (2nd Wrangler) 1795; M.A. 1798. Fellow, 1797-1800. Ord. deacon (Ely) Sept. 24, 1797; priest (Lincoln) Sept. 23, 1798; C. of Fen Ditton, Cambs., 1797. Chaplain to Dr Porter, Bishop of Clogher, 1798-1804. R. and V. of Fintona, Co. Tyrone. Preb. of Clogher, 1798. R. and V. of Magheraculmoney, Fermanagh, 1818-47. Married Henrietta Eyre, dau. of George Maunsell, D.D., Dean of Leighlin, Apr. 6, 1805. A strong Evangelical; one of the founders of the Hibernian Bible Society. Author, The Church Catechism, etc. Died Mar. 5, 1847, aged 73, at Hull. Buried at Brandiston. Father of William L. (1824). (Venn, II. 121; J. B. Leslie, Clogher Clergy; G. Mag., 1847, II. 216.)