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Adm. pens. (age 17) at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 15, 1823. [Eldest] s. of the Rev. Charles (1791), R. of Ridlington, Rutland (and Sarah, dau. of the Rev. Robert Willan). [Bapt. June 19, 1806], at Ridlington. ' Matric. Michs. 1824; Scholar, 1824; B.A. (32nd Wrangler) 1828; M.A. 1831. Adm. ad eundem, at Oxford, 1858. Mathematical Master at Bedford Grammar School, 1829-63. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) June 2, 1833; priest, Dec. 21, 1834; C. of St Paul's, Bedford, 1833-7. C. of Kempston, 1839-41. Chaplain of the Infirmary, Bedford, 1841-51 and of the Asylum, 1849-59. V. of Elm, Cambs., 1863-83. Married (1) Dec. 27, 1831, Jane, dau. of William Margetts, of Huntingdon; (2) June 24, 1852, Sophia Ann, eldest dau. of Daniel Taylor, of Clapham Common; (3) Nov. 11, 1880, Ellen, widow of Capt. C. S. Smelt, 21st Fusiliers. Died Aug. 30, 1883, aged 77, at Elm vicarage. Brother of Charles H. (1827); father of Henry A. (1873). (Crockford; The Guardian, Sept. 12, 1883; A. Tudor-Craig.)