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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, June 8, 1795. [S. of John of Gainsborough, Lincs., High Sheriff of Lincs., 1779 (by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Griffith Nelthorpe, of Little Grimsby). School, Lincoln. Bapt. Sept. 18, 1775, at Gainsborough.] ' Matric. Michs. 1795; B.A. 1799; M.A. 1802. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) May 19, 1799; priest, June 15, 1800; C. of Lea, Lincs., 1799. R. of North Reston, 1800-27. Chaplain to the Earl of Mexborough, in 1809. V. of Little Grimsby, 1809-27. Married, May 26, 1803, Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. Kingsman Baskett. Died Oct. 26, 1827, at Ackworth, Yorks. Father of the next; brother of John (1788). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 369; Lincs. Pedigrees, LI. 620-1; G. Mag., 1827, II. 474, and 1803, II. 689.)