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In VENN
Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 16, 1780. S. of Lancelot, Esq. [the well-known Capability Brown, head gardener to King George III at Hampton Court]. B. at Hammersmith, Middlesex. Bapt. there June 21, 1761. School, Winchester. ' Matric. Lent, 1780; B.A. 1784; M.A. 1787. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Dec. 12, 1784; priest (Ely) May 10, 1789; R. of Conington, Cambs., 1789-1829. R. of Wistow, Hunts., 1825-7. Married Susan, dau. of Charles Dickens, R. of Hemingford Grey, Hunts., Jan. 22, 1785. Died Dec. 20, 1829, at Conington. Buried in Fenstanton Church beside his father. The Fellows' garden, or The Wilderness, was laid out under the direction of Capability Brown, to whom the College presented a piece of plate. Father of Lancelot R. (1803) and Thomas C. (1818). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 158.)