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Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, July 5, 1782. Of Cumberland. [S. of the Rev. John (above). B. Nov. 8, 1764.] School, Grantham, Lincs. Scholar, 1784; matric. Michs. 1785; B.A. 1787; M.A. 1790. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) June 3, 1787; priest, Dec. 21, 1788; C. of Ingoldsby, Lincs., 1787. R. of Somerby with Humby (succeeding his father), 1789-1831. Chaplain to Henry, Earl of Exeter. R. of Ruskington (1st mediety), 1794-1831. R. of Bucknall, 1804. Chaplain to the Atlas, man-of-war, 1795, and, later, to the Dragon. Married, Dec. 8, 1803, Maria, dau. of Robert Cheney, Esq., of Langley Hall, Derbs. Died Dec. 28, 1831; buried at Somerby. M.I. there. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 393; Monson, Lincs. Church Notes; G. Mag., 1832, I. 374.)