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Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 25) at CHRIST'S, Mar. 12, 1821. [2nd] s. of John [attorney], of Marlborough (and Hannah, dau. of Samuel Hawkes). B. [May 8, 1795], at Marlborough. School, Chiswick, Middlesex. ' Matric. Easter, 1821; B.A. 1825; M.A. 1828. Ord. deacon (Salisbury) 1824; priest, 1826; C. of Froxfield, Wilts., and of St Mary's, Marlborough, 1824-6. Domestic Chaplain to the Marquess of Ailesbury, 1826-50. V. of Great Bedwyn, Wilts., 1826-50. R. of Wath, Yorks., 1850-61. An original member of the council of Marlborough College, 1843. Married (1) Jan. 9, 1823, Ann (d. 1844), eldest dau. of Samuel Merriman, M.D., of Rodbourne-Cheney, Wilts., and had issue; (2) July 12, 1846, Helen Duncan, dau. of the Rev. John Stuart, Superintendent of Military Accounts at the War Office, and had further issue. Died Dec. 4, 1861. Brother of Charles (1838). (Peile, II. 404; Boase, VI. 780; Clergy List; Crockford; Burke, L.G.; G. Mag., 1862, I. 102.)