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Adm. pens. (age 18) at CAIUS, Feb. 11, 1824. S. of William, farmer, of Spaldwick, Hunts. B. there. School, Northampton. ' Matric. Michs. 1824; B.A. (24th Wrangler) 1829; M.A. 1832. Ord. deacon, 1829; priest, 1831; C. of Tilbrook, Beds., 1829. Recorded as unbeneficed and residing at Spaldwick, Hunts., -1840-4. C. of Barham, Hunts., 1845; C. of Leighton-Bromswold, 1845; V. there 1849-99. Died July 20, 1899, aged 93, the oldest clergyman in Huntingdonshire. It was said that, after his appointment to Leighton-Bromswold, he never slept out of the parish. (Venn, II. 192 and addenda, III; Clergy List; Crockford; Ely Diocesan Remembrancer, Aug.-Sept. 1899.)