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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Apr. 14, 1806. [2nd] s. of the Bishop of Durham [the Rt. Rev. Thomas, D.D., Queen's College, Oxford, 1754], (and Anne, dau. of William Beere, of Lymington). [B. Oct. 6, 1788.] ' Matric. Michs. 1807; B.A. 1811; M.A. 1816. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) (June 7, 1812; priest, June 5, 1814; C. of Wolverton, Bucks. 1812-16. R. of Boxford, Suffolk, 1816-39. Sometime of Cranby, Surrey. On the death of his brother in 1829 he succeeded to the reversion of the following places-clerk of the Hanaper, patentee of bankrupts, and prothonotary of the Court of Pleas at Durham; these judicial sinecures were abolished by the Bankruptcy Acts, 1831, but an equivalent life annuity of £11,734. 2s. 5d. was granted to him. Married, June 4, 1811, Mary Frances, 6th dau. of the Hon. Thomas Lyon. Latterly of Baynard's Park, Horsham, where he died Sept. 26, 1874. Father of the next. (Boase, VI. 688; Burke, P. and B.; Crockford; Walford, County Families; The Times, Sept. 29, 1874.)