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Adm. pens. at PETERHOUSE, Dec. 5, 1820. S. of David, planter, of Jamaica. Of Middlesex. [B. 1800.] ' Matric. Lent, 1821; B.A. 1825; M.A. 1828. F.R.S., 1843. Member of the Microscopical Society. Ord. deacon and priest (Litt. dim. from Gloucester) 1824. Chaplain of the Middlesex Hospital, 1840-7. P.C. of Holy Trinity, Haverstock Hill, St Pancras, London, 1847-57. R. of St Olave's-by-the-Tower, 1857-60. Active in the foundation of the N. London Collegiate School for Girls. Founder of Governesses' Asylum, Kentish Town, 1849; Hon. Sec., 1849-60. Married, Apr. 14, 1824, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of John West, of Jamaica. Author, Sermons, etc. Died Aug. 6, 1860, at St Olave's, London, aged 59; M.I. in St Olave's. (Boase, II. 278; T. A. Walker, 411 and MS. note; Misc. Gen. et Her., 5th Ser., II. 148; G. Mag., 1860, II. 436 and 321; P. E. Towell.)