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Adm. pens. (age 17) at ST JOHN'S, July 2, 1793. S. of the Rev. Jelinger, B.D., of Hackney (CCEd ID 174054) (and Juliana, dau. of Theophilus Lane, of Poston Court, Heref.). B. at Low Leyton, Essex. Matric. Michs. 1793; Scholar, 1794; B.A. 1797; M.A. 1800. Ord. deacon (Durham) Jan. 29, 1799; priest, Sept. 1801; C. of Whitburn, Durham, 1799. V. of Monkland, Heref., 1808-51. C. of West Ilsley, Berks., 1809. Chaplain to the British residents in Boulogne, 1821. R. of Radnage, Bucks., 1833-51. J.P. for Hereford. Married, Jan. 7, 1805, Maria Henrietta, dau. of Henry Airey, of Sniperley, Co. Durham. Author, Synopsis Plantarum Insulis Britannicis Indigenarum. Died May 20, 1851, in London; buried May 25, at Radnage, Father of Jelinger Cookson (1827); brother of Henry John (1848)(CCEd ID 21767). (Burke, L.G.; Durham Ord. Book; St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 504; Foster, Index Eccles.; Clergy List; D.N.B. (sub his son)