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Adm. pens. (age 16) at CAIUS, Dec. 27, 1784. S. of Charles, gent., of Maidstone, Kent [according to St John's Coll. Adm., III. 557, his father was Thornhil, of St John's (1746), Col. of Marines, sometime of Market Place, Derby; died 1785]. B. [1769], at Pisa, Italy. Schools, Ipswich (Mr King) and Charterhouse. Scholar, 1785-7; matric. Easter, 1786. Migrated to Trinity, Dec. 22, 1786; B.A. (16th Wrangler) 1789; M.A. 1792; D.D. 1805. Fellow of Trinity, 1791. V. of Rodmersham, Kent, 1799-1815. R. of Little Wigborough, Essex, 1814-20. An Assistant Master at Charterhouse. Head Master, Hackney School, 1805-20. Married (1) Sept. 29, 1795, Dorothy, eldest dau. of John Ward, of Quy Hall, Cambs.; (2) Dec. 16, 1819, Maria, dau. of John Trower, of Upper Clapton. Died Apr. 14, 1820, at Mitcham Common. Father of Charles J. (1812). (Not in List of Carthusians; Venn, II. 110; Cant. Act Bk.; G. Mag., 1819, II. 635 and 1820, I. 381; Evelyn D. Heathcote, The Family of Heathcote, 185.)