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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, June 30, 1759. [S. of George.] B. [1739], in Westmorland. School, Sedbergh. ' Matric. Michs. 1759; Scholar, 1762; B.A. (3rd Wrangler) 1763; M.A. 1766; B.D. 1774. Fellow, 1765-82. Tutor. Ord. deacon (Lincoln, Litt. dim. from Ely) June 12, 1763; priest (Ely) Sept. 18, 1763; C. of Croydon with Clapton, Cambs., 1763. V. of Burton-in-Kendal, Westmorland, 1764-1806. Treasurer and Secretary to the Humane Society in the Archdeaconry of Richmond. Married, Nov. 7, 1781, Miss Myles, of Ambleside, and had issue, a daughter. Friend and correspondent of Thomas Wilson, B.D., R. of Claughton. Antiquary and philologist; left in MS. a Treatise on the Etymology of Words in the English Language derived from that of the GreekĀ
(see N. and Q., 2nd S., IX. 144; X. 19). Died Aug. 5, 1806, aged 66. Brother of William (1759). (St John's Coll. Adm., III. 662; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1806, II. 875.)