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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Sept. 27, 1762. [Only] s. of the Rev. John (Jesus College, Oxford, 1734) [of Plas-yn-Yale], Denbighs (and Frances, dau. of John Jones), B. at Wrexham. School, Ruthin. ' Matric. Michs. 1762; B.A. 1767; M.A. 1770; B.D. 1777. Fellow, 1767-81; Steward, 1779-80. Ord. deacon (Lincoln), May 29, 1768; priest, Mar. 11, 1770. R. of Stradishall, Suffolk, 1775-8. Chaplain of Horningsey, Cambs., 1777-9. R. of Lawford, Essex, 1779-1800. Died, unmarried, May 27, 1800. 'His only ambition was to die worth £50,000. He was conveyed in a miserable hearse accompanied by his sister and maid-servant to Wrexham, the place of his nativity'. (St John's Coll. Adm., III. 686; Burke, L.G.; G. Mag., 1800, I. 487.)