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Adm. sizar (age 26) at ST JOHN'S, June 5, 1782. S. of Thomas. B. [Mar. 15, 1756], at Carlinghow, Batley, Yorks. ' Matric. Michs. 1782; Scholar, 1784; B.A. (18th Wrangler) 1788; M.A. 1791. 'Very deaf, which handicapped him in the Acts and Opponencies of the Tripos.' (Gunning). Ord. deacon (Peterb.), July 12, 1789; priest, Dec. 20, 1789; C. of King's Cliffe, Northants., 1789-91. R. of Claxby with Normanby-le-Wold, Lincs., 1819-20. Married, June 29, 1791, Mrs Lydia Wigginton, of King's Cliffe. Died Mar. 24, 1832, at Bollam House, near Retford. (St John's Coll. Adm.; Northants. Clergy; G. Mag., 1832, I, 473; Gunning, I. 88.)