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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 10, 1794. S. and h. of William, F.S.A., of Brook Street, and of Eastry, Kent [and Sarah, dau. of Thomas Fuller, of Statenborough, Kent]. B. Apr. 12, 1778. School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1795; Scholar; Prizeman; B.A. (Senr. Wrangler) 1799. Migrated to Peterhouse, June 15, 1799; M.A. 1802. Fellow of Peterhouse, 1800. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 19, 1801. Called to the Bar, 1804. Bencher, 1831. Q.C., 1831. Treasurer, 1844. Recorder of Canterbury, 1804, and subsequently of Sandwich, Hythe, New Romney, and Deal. High Steward of Fordwich. Senior Commissioner of the District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds, 1844-5. The foremost authority of his day on the Law of Tithe. Married Charlotte, dau. of James Leigh Joynes, Esq., of Mount Pleasant, near Gravesend, Nov. 29, 1808, at Betteshanger. Died Oct. 23, 1845, from injuries received in a collision on the Midland Railway. Father of the above and Richard (1839). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV; T. A. Walker; D.N.B.)