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Adm. pens. (age 19) at PETERHOUSE, Dec. 7, 1799. Of Middlesex. ' Matric. Easter, 1800; B.A. 1804; M.A. 1807; B.D. 1814; D.D. 1819. Fellow, 1807. Ord. deacon (London) June 17, 1804; priest, Dec. 30, 1804. Assistant preacher at Lincoln's Inn, 1806. V. of Little St Mary's, Cambridge, 1807-14. Preacher at Whitehall, 1811. R. of St Margaret, Lothbury, and of St Christopher-le-Stocks, 1814-56; also Minister of St Botolph's, Aldgate. Norrisian Professor of Divinity, 1824-38. Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1828-56. Married (1) July 28, 1814, Lydia, dau. of Richard Amphlett, of Hadzor Hall, Worcs.; (2) Apr. 1836, Mary Ann, dau. of John Tabor, Esq., of Finsbury Square, London. Author, Heads of Lectures in Divinity delivered in the University of Cambridge (2 editions), etc. Died Feb. 9, 1856, at St Margaret's rectory, Lothbury. Father of Francis (1862) and Henry (1860). (T. A. Walker, 373; Clergy List; Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1856, I. 430-1.)