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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, July 4, 1782. Doubtless a Ten-year man. S. of the Rev. John (1724), V. of Haverhill, Suffolk. B. June 11, 1747, at Linton, Cambs. Ord. deacon (London) May 21, 1780; priest (Norwich) June 4, 1781; C. of St Mary's, Newmarket, 1781-2. V. of St Paul's, Bedford, 1782-1824. Correspondent of Sir J. E. Smith, and contributed to his English Botany. Married Charlotte (who died 1861). Died Feb. 1824, at Bedford. Father of John (next). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 299; G. Mag., 1861, II. 696; Index of Botanists, which gives b. 1746.)