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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, June 6, 1763. S. of John, gent., of Kirkby-Lonsdale, Westmorland. School, Sedbergh. ' Matric. Michs. 1763; Scholar, 1766; B.A. 1767; M.A. 1771. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Mar. 15, 1767; priest, Sept. 20, 1767; C. of Whaplode Drove, Lincs., 1767. One of these names (not of Oxford) was instituted R. of Salcott-Virley, Essex, June 24, 1778, and R. of Melbury Bubb, Dorset, Jan. 16, 1792; both livings were vacant in 1796. [A Rev. R. Glover was of Wispington, Lincs., in 1811.] Perhaps C. of St John-the Evangelist, Westminster, 1802-5; V. of Dagenham, Essex, 1811-16, and Chaplain of St Mary's Hospital, Ilford, 1814-24; if so, died June, 1824, at Ilford. Probably father of Bright (1810). (Sedbergh Sch. Reg.; St John's Coll. Adm., III. 693; Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1824, I. 573; J. P. Shawcross, A History of Dagenham, p. 88.)