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Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Aug. 24, 1812. S. of [the Rev.] William [C. of Uckfield]. B. [June 9], 1795, at Horsted, Sussex. School, Uckfield (Dr Saunders). Matric. Michs. 1813; Bell Scholar, 1814; Scholar, 1815; B.A. (14th Wrangler) 1817; Chancellor's Classical medal, 1817; Members' prize, 1818; M.A. 1820; B.D. 1827. Hulsean Advocate, 1829. Select Preacher, 1825, 1826, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1833, 1834. President of the Union, 1817. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 20, 1818; priest, Dec. 19, 1819; C. of Buxted, Sussex, 1819. V. of Horsham, 1821-30. Preb. of Chichester, 1827-33. R. of Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1830-3. R. of Fairstead, Essex, 1834-7. P.C. of St Thomas's, Southwark, 1835-8 Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham, 1833-4; resigned on account of ill-health. Principal of King's College, London, 1836. Took part with Palmer, Perceval, and R. H. Froude in the Hadleigh Conference, an important landmark in the early history of the Tractarian Movement. Married, June 24, 1819, Anna Cuyler, dau. of Capt. Peter Mair, of Richmond, Yorks. Editor of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; his projected New Biographical Dictionary was edited by others. Died, s.p., Dec. 22, 1838, in Florence, from the effects of influenza. Brother of Henry J. (1817). (Cant. Act Book; Clergy List; C.U. Hist. Reg., 98, note 3; D.N.B.; Uckfield Past and Present.)