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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Feb. 28, 1820. S. of Vice-Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney [K.C.B., M.P.] (by his 1st wife, Elizabeth Weake, dau. of James Rattray). B. [Oct. 30, 1803], at Bursledon, Hants. School, Harrow. ' Matric. Michs. 1821; B.A. 1826; M.A. 1829. Ord. deacon (Lincoln), Sept. 24, 1826; priest (Lincoln, Litt. dim. from Chichester), Sept. 23, 1827. R. of Aspenden, Herts., 1830-56. R. of Wimpole, Cambs. 1831-71. Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1856-9. Canon of Ely, 1859-71. J.P. for Cambs. Granted precedence of an earl's son, Feb. 10, 1836. Married, Nov. 19, 1833, Flora Elizabeth, 3rd dau. of General Sir Alexander Campbell, Bart. Died Sept. 26, 1871. Father of Alexander C. (1870) and Philip S. (1854); brother of Eliot T. (1823), Charles P. (1835, sub Hardwicke, and Grantham H. (1832). (Harrow Sch. Reg.; Burke, P. and B. (sub Earl of Hardwicke); Boase, III. 1567; Clergy List; Crockford.)