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Adm. pens. at CLARE, Mar. 21, 1817. [5th s. of John, M.D., of Market Bosworth, Leics. B. there Oct. 5, 1798.] ' Matric. Michs. 1817; B.A. (10th Wrangler) 1821; M.A. 1824. Fellow, 1823-8. Fellow of Trinity Hall, 1829-44; tutor and Lecturer. Returned to Clare as Fellow, 1844-68, and Dean of Clare. Junior Proctor, 1829-30. Adm. ad eundem at Oxford, June 5, 1845. Ord. deacon (Norwich) June 13, 1824. University Librarian, 1845-64. V. of Litlington, Cambs., 1856-66. R. of Birdbrook, Essex, 1866-8. Author of mathematical papers in the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Died, unmarried, June 7, 1868, at Birdbrook; buried there. M.I. in window at Polesworth. Brother of Alfred (1821) and John A. (1828). (Boase, II. 1614; Al. Oxon.; D.N.B.)