In VENN
Adm. at KING'S, a scholar from Eton, Feb. 19, 1828. [S. of the Rev. George (sic) Staples (King's Coll. Adm. Reg.), doubtless an error for John Staples (1774) who had a s. and h., Thomas, matric. at Oxford in 1823.] B. Sept. 17 (? 27), 1810, at Gt Burstead, Essex. ' Matric. Easter, 1828; B.A. 1833; M.A. 1836. Fellow, 1831-51. Vice-Provost. Ord. deacon (Rochester, Litt. dim. from Ely) Feb. 15, 1835; priest (Lincoln) 1836. C. of White Waltham, Berks., 1841-2. C. of Weybridge, Surrey, 1842-4. R. of Hepworth, Suffolk, 1851-83. Lived latterly at Highfield, Godalming, where he died Aug. 12, 1887. (Eton Sch. Lists; King's Coll. Adm. Reg.; Crockford; The Guardian, Aug. 17, 1887.)