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Adm. pens. (age 16) at TRINITY, Mar. 29, 1758. S. of Edmund, of London. School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Easter, 1758; Scholar, 1759; B.A. (5th Wrangler) 1762; M.A. 1765; B.D. 1789. Fellow, 1763. Held various College offices. Regius Professor of Hebrew, 1771-90. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Dec. 22, 1761. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Dec. 26, 1769. Founder's Day Preacher at Charterhouse, 1778. V. of Shudy Camps, Cambs., 1790-2. R. of Orwell, 1791-1803. Gunning speaks of him as an admirable classic and particularly well versed in modern languages, at that time a very rare accomplishment in the University; he also tells a story proving him to have been a notorious gourmand. Author, Poems on various occasions with Translations from Authors in different languages. Died Aug. 7, 1803, aged 60, at Newington, Surrey. (Gunning, Reminiscences, II. 119; G. Mag., 1803, II. 794.)