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Adm. pens. (age 15) at CAIUS, June 23, 1823. [4th] s. of Joseph (1774) [Private Secretary to William Pitt], of Shortgrove, Essex. B. in London. Schools, Shortgrove, Cobham and Bury St Edmunds. ' Matric. Michs. 1824; Scholar; B.A. (10th Wrangler) 1828; M.A. 1831. Fellow, 1828-49; Dean, 1830-7, and tutor. Senior Proctor, 1839-40. Adm. ad eundem at Oxford, 1834. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Oct. 10, 1830; priest (Lincoln) 1831. V. of Loddon, Norfolk, 1849-83. Minister of Laura Chapel, Bath, 1875-9. One of the founders of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Of Loddon House, Norfolk, and Penally Abbey, Tenby. J.P. for Norfolk. Married, Feb. 15, 1849, Agnes Maria, dau. of J. G. Mitford. Editor of The Cambridge Portfolio (1840); edited the Catalogue of Coins in Caius and Catalogue of MSS. in Caius; Specimens of College Plate; etc. Died Dec. 5, 1883. Father of Ernest J. H. (1869) and Edmund H. C. (1873); brother of William C. (1817), Henry J. (1819), George J. P. (1820) and Richard S. (1838). (Bury St Edmunds Sch. List; Al. Oxon.; Boase, VI. 583; Venn, II. 189; Burke, L.G., which gives died 1880; Walford, County Families; The Guardian, Dec. 12, 1883, which gives died Dec. 4.)