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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, July 9, 1817. [S. of Joseph, gent. (druggist), of Rodney Street, Pentonville, London. B. 1799 or 1800.] Schools [Mill Hill and] St Paul's. Migrated to Clare, Nov. 13, 1817. ' Matric. Michs. 1818; B.A. (5th Wrangler) 1822; M.A. 1825. Fellow of Clare, 1824-9. D.D., Lambeth, 1829. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) 1824; priest, 1825. Principal of Upper Canada College, Toronto, 1829-38. C. of Cockington, Devon, 1845-8. V. of Tor Mohun with Cockington, 1848-79. Author, religious. Lived latterly at Torquay, where he died June 25, 1881. Buried at Trumpington, Cambs. His brother, Henry Hemington, was Mayor of Cambridge, 1853-4 and 1862-3. Uncle of Henry F. (1853). (Mill Hill Sch. Reg. (Joseph only); St Paul's Sch. Reg.; Boase, v. 588; Crockford; Scott, MSS.; The Guardian, June 29, 1881.)