Church of England clergyman, educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1808. He held a number of clerical appointments, including, from 1809, the post of Lecturer at St Anne’s, Limehouse, London, chaplain to various members of the royal family and Rector of Hawkchurch, Devon 1828–1852. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1814. In 1815 he had toured the battlefield of Waterloo and published The Peace-Offering: A Sermon on the Peace in support of the campaign to raise funds for the wounded, and for widows and orphans of the combatants. Southey corresponded with him in 1827 over the former’s proposed memoir of James Wolfe (1727–1759; DNB).