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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, May 31, 1797. [3rd] s. of Thomas (1756), V. of Ryhall and R. of Tinwell, Rutland. Bapt. at Ryhall, Jan. 17, 1780. School, Stamford. ' Matric. Michs. 1797; B.A. 1801; M.A. 1804. Fellow, 1802-10. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) June 20, 1802; priest, 1804. R. (and patron) of Wickersley, Yorks., 1804-63. V. of Marton with Grafton, 1809-63: portrait presented to him by his friends, Aug. 1854, to commemorate 50th year of incumbency. Married, June 6, 1810, at Bath, Charlotte, dau. of George Rooke, Esq., of Langham Hall, Essex. Died June 4, 1863, at Dalton parsonage, Rotherham. Brother of Kingsman (1802) and Thomas (1788); father of Charles W. (1845). (St John's Coll. Alm., IV. 252; F.M.G., I. 404; Boase, v. 333; Cant. Act Bk.; G. Mag., 1863, 1. 109 and II. 243-4; Hutchins, 111, 173; Misc. Gen. et Her., N.S. 11, 203; Foster, Index Eccles.; Northants. Clergy; Crockford; Scott, MSS.)