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Adm. pens. (age 19) at CAIUS, Mar. 9, 1807. 2nd s. of Charles, schoolmaster, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. B. there Feb. 14, 1788. School, Bury Grammar. ' Matric. Michs. 1807; Scholar, 1807-12; Prizeman; Chancellor's medal; Browne medals; B.A. (13th Wrangler) 1811. Migrated to Emmanuel, Mar. 19, 1812; M.A. (Emmanuel) 1814. Fellow and Tutor of Emmanuel, 1813-16. Travelling Bachelor, 1813-15. Proctor, 1816. Ord. priest (Bristol) Apr. 3, 1813. Preacher of St Mary's, Cambridge, 1816. A first-rate scholar; upon his premature death, a friend wrote to his brother, Charles, what a Marcellus in letters we have lost. Author, Greek Grammar of Matthiae, translated from the German; had also projected a Greek-English Lexicon. Died Oct. 9, 1816, at Cambridge, of a fever contracted in Switzerland. Buried in Emmanuel Chapel. M.I. there, and a monument, executed by Chantrey, in St James's, Bury. Brother of Charles J. (1803; CCE8145), etc. (Venn, II. 148; G. Mag., 1816, II. 373; D.N.B.)