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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, June 15, 1784. S. of the Rev. Richard (1750), V. of Wirksworth, Derbs. (and Sarah, only child of Ralph Yoward, of York). B. July 16, 1765, at York. School, Coxwold. ' Matric. Michs. 1784; Scholar, 1784; B.A. (11th Wrangler) 1788; M.A. 1791. Fellow, 1790-8. Ord. deacon (Ely) Dec. 21, 1788; priest, June 19, 1791. V. of Madingley, Cambs., 1791-6. R. of Bluntisham, Hunts., 1796-1841. J.P. for Hunts. Married, Dec. 31, 1810, Margaret, 3rd dau. of the Rev. William Smelt, R. of Gedling, Notts. (and Margaret, only dau. of Philip, 5th Earl of Chesterfield). 'Since the present wealthy incumbent [of Bluntisham] became allied to the house of Stanhope, the rectorial table is not infrequently the easy and fascinating resort of the principal nobility of this country.' Retired to Street End House, Canterbury, and died at Hastings, Jan. 4, 1850. Brother of Henry (1795); father of James A. (1830) and the next. (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 518; Burke, P. and B. (sub Chesterfield); E. H. Vigers; C. F. Tebbutt; G. Mag., 1850, I. 331.)