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Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, July 13, 1790. Of Northamptonshire. [S. of the Rev. John (1747), R. of Etton, Northants. B. 1772.] ' Matric. Michs. 1791; Scholar, 1791; B.A. 1795; M.A. 1798. Ord. priest (Peterb.) July 9, 1797; C. of Etton, Northants., 1797. R. of Whepstead, Suffolk, 1798-1856. R. of Stanningfield, 1807-56. Married, Jan. 15, 1799, at Castor, Frances Freeman. F.G.S., 1840. A great collector of fossils. His collection was bought by the University in 1856 (owing to the efforts of Professor Sedgwick), and is now in the Geological Museum. Died Mar. 8, 1856, at Whepstead rectory. Father of John (1820). (Clergy List; Northants. Clergy; Foster, Index Eccles.; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1856, I. 534 and 554.)