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Adm. sizar (age 18) at PEMBROKE, June 28, 1766. S. and h. of Dionysius Claudius, physician. [B. in London 1746. Bapt. Mar. 13, 1747.] Exhibitioner; matric. Michs. 1766; B.A. (Hon. Wrangler) 1770; M.A. 1773. Ord. deacon (Canterbury) 1770; priest (Litt. dim. from Canterbury) 1772; C. of Marden, Kent, 1770. Assistant-Chaplain at the Lock Hospital, where he soon became known as an eloquent preacher of the Calvinistic School. Lord Mayor's Chaplain, 1789. V. of Godstone, Surrey, 1794-1820. J.P. for Co. of Surrey. Editor of The Theological Miscellany, 1784-9. Author of several religious works. Published his Miscellaneous Works (3 vols.), 1807-10. Died Sept. 16, 1820, aged 74, in Stamford St, Blackfriars. M.I. at Godstone. Doubtless father of Charles F. (1816). (Brayley, Surrey, IV. 144; Cant. Act Bk; D.N.B.)