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Adm. pens. (age 18) at PEMBROKE, Jan. 17, 1754. 5th s. of Sir Thomas [4th] Bart. (1709-10), of Casewick, Lincs. (and Diana, dau. of Thomas Middleton, of Stansted, Essex). B. at Casewick. [School, Wakefield.] ' Matric. Lent, 1755; B.A. 1758; M.A. 1761. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Sept. 20, 1761; priest (Lincoln) Sept. 19, 1762; C. of Wittering, Northants., 1761-2. R. of Cottered, Herts., with Broadfield, 1762-1806. Chaplain to Charlotte, Duchess of Somerset. V. of Rushden, Herts., 1770-1806. Adm. at the Middle Temple, Nov. 20, 1784, as ;the Rev. Anthony Trollope, youngest s. of Thomas, of the Middle Temple; (later Bart.). Married, 1767, Penelope, dau. of Adolphus Meetkerke, Esq., of Julians, Rushden. Died June 3, 1806, aged 71. Grandfather of the novelist. Father of Thomas A. (1792); brother of Thomas M. (1738-9). (Northants. Clergy; Burke, P. and B.; St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 524; Inns of Court; G. Mag., 1806, I. 587-8; M. H. Peacock.)