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Adm. pens. at SIDNEY, Mar. 10, 1780. Elder s. of William, attorney and alderman, of Grimsby [and Frances Whichcot]. B. there July 6, 1762. School, Louth (Mr Emeris). ' Matric. Easter, 1781; LL.B. 1786. Adm. Fell.-Com. at Queens', Apr. 16, 1789. V. of Killingholme with Habrough, Lincs., 1792. V. of East Halton, 1792. R. of Winestead, Yorks., 1795-1842. R. of Ludborough, 1815-25. Married, Dec. 12, 1793, Catherine, dau. of Isle Grant, of Ruckland, Lincs. Died Feb. 25, 1842. Nine of his ten sons were graduates of Cambridge and six were Fellows of their Colleges. Father of the next, of Robert C. (1818), Richard (1833), John (1813), James (1828), Horatio S. (1825), Frederick (1820), Francis (1826) and Alexander G. (1833). (Goulding, Some Louth Grammar Schoolboys; Clergy List, 1841; Burke, L.G., 1939; Cant. Act Bk.; G. Mag., 1842, I. 559.)