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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Mar. 4, 1788. Of Rutland. S. and h. of Thomas (above), clerk [and Sarah]. Bapt. Apr. 1, 1770, at Ryhall, Rutland. ' Matric. Michs. 1788; B.A. 1792. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) July 1, 1792; priest, Dec. 21, 1794. C. of Careby, Lincs., 1794. Preceded his father as R. of Tinwell, Rutland, 1797-98. Married, Dec. 21, 1796, Susan, dau. of William Waters, surgeon, of Stamford. Author, The Brunoniad, a mock heroic poem in six cantos; A farewell ode on a distant prospect of Cambridge. Died s.p. Feb. 8, 1798, in London. Brother of John (1797) and of Kingsman (1802). (St John's Coll. Adm. IV. 259; F.M.G., I. 404; Northants. Clergy; Hutchins, III. 173; Misc. Gen. et Her, N.S., II. 203.)