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In VENN where sometimes HOLME
Adm. sizar (age 18) at PETERHOUSE, Mar. 26, 1778; pens. in 1778-9. Of Cumberland. ' Matric. Michs. 1778; Scholar, 1778; B.A. 1782; M.A. 1785. Fellow, 1785. Taxor, 1801. V. of Cherry Hinton, Cambs., 1808-20. R. of Freckenham, Suffolk, 1816-29. F.L.S., 1800. He was a botanist and gathered many species in Cambs. that are now extinct. Died Aug. 2, 1829, at Freckenham. Doubtless brother of Thomas J. (1778). (Foster, Index Eccles.; T. A. Walker, 343 (Holmes); Cant. Act Bk.; Index of Botanists.)