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Adm. sizar at EMMANUEL, Jan. 16, 1778. Of Lincs. [2nd s. of the Rev. John (Queen's College, Oxford, 1742), R. of Thoresway, Lincs. School, Louth Grammar.] Matric. Michs. 1778; B.A. 1782; M.A. 1794. Ord. deacon, 1781; C. of Panton, Lincs., c. 1784. V. of Stixwold, 1802-30. R. of Thoresway (succeeding his father), 1806-30. Died Nov. 9, 1830. M.I. in Caistor church. Brother of John (1775). (Goulding, Some Louth Gr. Sch. Boys; G. Mag., 1830, II. 645; Northants. Clergy; P. B. G. Binnall.)
Mounsey amassed a notable collection of fossils which is described in Nichols ‘Antiquities of the County of Leicestershire’. Information from Neil Fortey by email 4/10/2010. Sproxton annexed to Saltby during tenure