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Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, May 3, 1816. S. and h. of Thomas William (1777; CCE1561), clerk. B. Nov. 20, 1798, at South Mimms, Herts. (his mother's home). School, Tiverton, Devon (Mr Richards). ' Matric. Michs. 1816; Scholar, 1819; B.A. 1820; M.A. 1823. Ord. priest (Ely, Litt. dim. from Canterbury) Mar. 23, 1823. C. of Uckfield, Sussex, 1822. R. of Little Bowden, Northants., 1830-43. F.R.S., 1834. Secretary of the Royal Institution, 1842-62. Chaplain-in-ordinary at Kensington Palace, 1854-69. Married Cecilia Anne, dau. of Ewan Law, Esq., Oct. 1, 1824. Author, The Connection between Physiology and Intellectual Philosophy, etc. Died s.p. July 8, 1869, aged 70, at 5, Berkeley Street, Piccadilly. Brother of George H. (1824), Philip Bockett (CCE6521) (Boase; Foster, Baronetage, 1883.)