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Adm. sizar (age 19) at PEMBROKE, Feb. 9, 1797. Of Oxfordshire. [2nd s. of John, clerk, of Oxford. Bapt. there Aug. 25, 1777. School, Christ's Hospital.] ' Matric. Michs. 1797; Scholar. Kept five terms. Migrated to Queens', Apr. 13, 1799; B.A. (7th Wrangler) 1801; M.A. 1804. Fellow of Queens', 1802. St Matthew Day Preacher, 1806. C. of Epsom, Surrey. R. of Seagrave, Leics., 1809-51. Rural Dean. Married, June 18, 1810, Mary Anne, dau. of John James, clerk (of Queen's College, Oxford). Published anonymously a satirical tract on a Roman Catholic miracle, 1836. Died Oct. 8, 1851. M.I. at Seagrave. Father of Charles (1840); grandfather of John (1888), Wilfrid (1890) and Clement (1894). (Wilfrid Gutch; Christ's Hosp. Reg.; Foster, Index Eccles.; Clergy List; D.N.B.)