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Adm. sizar (age 17) at CHRIST'S, Dec. 12, 1820. S. of Alexander. B. at Nottingham. School, Oakham (Dr Doncaster). ' Matric. Michs. 1821; Scholar, 1822; B.A. (19th Wrangler) 1826; M.A. 1829. Fellow, 1830-2. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Sept. 1830; priest, Dec. 1830. Head Master of Maidstone Grammar School; of Ashby-de-la-Zouch Grammar School, 1839-76 (1835-70 (Boase)). Master of Ravenstone Hospital, 1870-6. Author, A Grammar of the New Testament Dialect; Critical Notes on the New Testament, etc. Died July 27, 1876, aged 72, at Ravenstone. Father of Alexander H. (1851) and of the next. (Peile, II. 402; Boase, v. 491; Crockford.)