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Adm. sizar (age 18) at CAIUS, Apr. 7, 1776, and pens. Nov. 18, 1777. S. of Charles (1739), R. of Benacre, Suffolk. B. at Beccles. Scholar, 1776-81; matric. Michs. 1777; Tancred Student; M.B. 1781. Fellow, 1782-92. Dean, 1785. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Mar. 7, 1784; C. of Wrentham, Suffolk, 1784. Master of the Perse School, Cambridge, 1786-91. R. of Creeting St Peter's, Suffolk, 1792. V. of Wickham Market, 1803-27. R. of Combs, Barking and Darmsden, 1818-36. Married Anne, dau. of John Freeman, of Combs, Dec. 13, 1792. A very ingenious Naturalist. Author, Bourrit's Journey to the Glaciers (translation, 1775); The Necessary Limits of the Right of Private Judgment on controverted points of Theology; Sermon, 1794. Died Mar. 7, 1836. M.I. at Barking, Suffolk. (Another Charles Davy, only s. of Rev. William, V. of Winkleigh, Devon, was V. of Ingleham, Wilts., 1834-6. Author, Cottage Sermons. Died, 1836.) (Venn, II. 97; G. Mag., 1836, II. 104.)