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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, Mar. 27, 1824. B. [Dec. 2, 1805] at Blackburn, Lancs. ' Matric. Michs. 1824; Scholar 1825; B.A. (4th Wrangler) 1828; M.A. 1831; B.D. 1838. Fellow, 1830-42. Ord. deacon (Lincoln for Ely) Dec. 19, 1830; priest, Dec. 18, 1831. Chaplain at Horningsea, Cambs., 1831-8. R. of Morton, Derbs., 1841-64. R. of Brindle, Lancs., 1864-77. Preb. of Lichfield Cathedral, 1864-77. Married, Aug. 26, 1841, Jane, dau. of John Smith, of Cambridge. Edited the 11th and subsequent editions of Wood's Algebra (accused Isaac Todhunter of plagiarising from it (1858)); Elements of Geometry and Mensuration; Key to Bishop Colenso's Biblical Arithmetic; Sermons. Died May 14, 1877. Father of William (1875). (Scott, MSS.; Boase, II. 530; Crockford; Clergy List; Baines, History of Lancashire, IV. 217.)