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Adm. pens. at QUEENS', June 29, 1756. Of Lincolnshire. [S. and h. of William, attorney-at-law, of Bourne, Lincs. B. there Feb. 3, 1738-9. Bapt. Mar. 22, 1738-9.] ' Matric. Michs. 1756; LL.B. 1763. Ord. deacon (Salisbury) Dec. 20, 1761; priest (Lincoln) June 12, 1763; R. of Dowsby, Lincs., 1763-73. V. of Wytham-on-the-Hill, 1763-72. V. of Ryhall with Essendine, Rutland, 1773-98. R. of Careby, Lincs., 1789-1825. R. of Hornfield, Rutland, 1798-1825. Succeeded his son, Thomas, as R. of Tinwell, Mar. 14, 1798-1825. J.P. for Rutland. Treasurer of the County for 30 years. In order to relieve the rates and promote industry among the children of labourers, he organized schools of rural industry in Rutland. Married, Feb. 2, 1769, Sarah, dau. of John Baskett, R. of Dunsby, Lincs., and had 12 children. Sold the Dowsby and Ryhall estates, 1793. Died Sept. 4, 1825, at Tinwell. M.I. Tinwell church. Father of the next, Kingsman (1802) and John (1797). (F.M.G.; Harl. Soc., XXXVII.; Misc. Gen. et Her., N.S., 2; Lambeth Act Bk. XII. 130; Northants. Clergy; G. Mag., 1826, I. 91; V.C.H. Rutland, 1, 224-5.)