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Adm. sizar (age 16) at ST JOHN'S, June 23, 1825. [4th] s. of William [manufacturer], of Shrewsbury. [B. Feb. 28, 1808, at Brixton, Surrey. Schools, Merchant Taylors' and Christ's Hospital.] ' Matric. Easter, 1826; Scholar, 1829; B.A. (4th Wrangler) 1830; M.A. 1833. Fellow, 1832-5; Hon. Fellow, 1886. Hulsean Lecturer, 1867. Incorp. M.A., at New College, Oxford, 1870; B.D. and D.D. (Oxford) 1880. Fellow of New College, 1883-93. Ord. deacon, June 10, 1832; priest, 1834. Head Master of a school at Stockwell, 1833-4; resigned, owing to difficulties with the governing body. Head Master of Clapham Grammar School (which was founded to give him a free hand in carrying out educational reforms), 1834-62; resigned and lived at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, until 1870. F.R.S., 1840; Royal Medal, 1892. F.R.A.S., 1849; President, 1886; gold medal for discoveries in stellar photometry, 1866. F.G.S., 1852. Select Preacher at Cambridge, 1869 and 1881; at Oxford, 1876-7. Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, 1870-93. Providence, he said, made me an astronomer, but gave me the heart of a divine. Married (1) Dec. 18, 1834, Emily, dau. of John Newton, of Lambeth; (2) Aug. 10, 1858, Rosalind, dau. of Alexander Campbell, of Tunbridge Wells, and had issue by both marriages. Author, The Theory of Statical Couples and on the Figure of the Earth considered as heterogeneous; Vindiciae Mosaicae (in Reply to Bishop Colenso); Sermons (preached before the British Association); Uranometria Nova Oxoniensis; Occasional Thoughts of an Astronomer on Nature and Revelation. Died May 28, 1893, at Oxford. Father of Edward M. (1860). (Eagle, XVII. 664; Boase, II. 1648; Crockford; Al. Oxon.; D.N.B.; F. P. White; Memoirs, by his daughter.)