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Adm. sizar (age 25) at ST JOHN'S, Nov. 26, 1778. A Ten-year man. [S. of John (and Ann) of Whale House, Seascale, Cumberland. The father spelt his name as Moscrop and Mossop, but three of the sons adopted the latter spelling.] Ord. priest (Lincoln) Sept. 19, 1779; C. of Deeping St James, Lincs., 1778-1830 (the incumbent being an absentee). V. of Baston, 1781-1834 and of Langtoft, 1801-34. Died July 14, 1834. M.I. at Deeping St James. Distinguish from the next and also from an Oxford contemporary beneficed in Kent and Lincolnshire. Brother of George E. [Moscrop] (1786); father of Charles (1812). (Letter from Miss Maud Mossop; C. R. Hudleston.)