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Adm. sizar (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, June 18, 1771. S. of Thomas (and Mary). B. at St John's, Beverley, Yorks. ' Matric. Michs. 1772; Scholar, 1774; B.A. 1775, as Thomson; M.A. 1778, as Thomson. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) June 11, 1775; priest, Feb. 24, 1777. Master of the Grammar School at Kimbolton, c. 1776. V. of Easton, Hunts., 1786-1826, and R. of Spaldwick with Barham, 1814-26. Died in 1826, while on a visit to London. Brother of Thomas (1748) and William (1753). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 514; Incumbents of Hunts., G. Mag., 1826, I. 1474; Scott, MSS., which states that he was ord. as Thomson, but resumed the spelling of Thompson.)