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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, June 19, 1795. Of Sussex. S. of the Rev. William (above). [B. Feb. 26, 1778, at Hastings.] School, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk. ' Matric. Michs. 1795; Scholar, 1796; B.A. (5th Wrangler) 1800; M.A. 1803. Fellow, 1801-5. Ord. deacon (Chichester), Mar. 25, 1802; priest, Oct. 28, 1803. R. of Starston (and in charge of Rushall), Norfolk, 1803-26. Married, Apr. 21, 1806, Rebecca, dau. of the Rev. Gervas Holmes. Joint author, Catalogue of Norfolk and Suffolk Birds. His Diary of local natural history, 1809-26, was published in Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Soc. "His end was a sad one. There had been robberies in Starston and the inhabitants organised nightly watches in which some went out themselves and others by deputy. Mr Whitear, as a magistrate, volunteered his personal services. On the night of 27 November 1826 when there seems to have been special apprehension, the whole watch were out, and firearms were taken by some of the party. One of the watch, Thomas Pallant, in a panic amounting to absolute frenzy, fired, or attempted to fire, on everyone of whom he caught sight and shot Mr Whitear, who died of his wounds at the rectory, 13 December 1826." Father of the next. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 553.)