an English clergyman and an accomplished antiquary, was born in 1733, and educated at St. Catharine Hall, Cambridge; where he became a fellow in 1758. In April 1762, he was presented to the rectory of Hawstead, in Suffolk; and in December 1774, instituted to the vicarage of Great Thurlow. He died October 9, 1785. His History of the Parish of Hawstead and Hardwick House was originally published as the twenty-third number of the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica. See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors. s.v.