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I can find no clue to the date of his B.A., nor can T ascertain the 

 date of his ordination. He took his M.A. on February 3rd, 1804, 

 and in the same year the prebendal stall of Warthill, in the 

 Cathedral of York, was vacated by his father, and Archbishop 

 Markham immediately presented him to it. 



About this time (1804) he had a laboratory, and busied himself 

 much with chemical experiments, thus perhaps laying the foun- 

 dation for that interest in scientific subjects which subsequently 

 led him as a relaxation by change of intellectual employment to 

 those few researches in Geology, Chemistry, and History of 

 Science, the results of which for the most part are recorded in the 

 " Annals," and the character of this is such that did we not know 

 him to be otherwise employed in promoting objects of equal utility, 

 we might have wished that the scientific researches had been 

 greatly extended."* 



In 1807t he was chosen Professor of Anglo-Saxon, at Oxford, 

 and he also held the perpetual curacy of Cowley, near Oxford. 



In 1812 he was elected Eegius Professor of Poetry at Oxford, 

 and in the same year he was presented to the vicarage of Bath- 

 easton, near Bath, which is among the many livings in the patronage 

 of Christ Church, Oxford. 



In 1824 he preached the Bampton Lecture. From Oxford he 

 went to Blackheath, where he was seized with apoplexy, on 11th 

 June, 1824, and died the next day at the house of Stephen 

 Groombridge, Esq. On the 20th his body was placed in the 

 Churchyard at Batheaston, in a spot selected by himself. 



An article in the " Bath and Cheltenham Gazette" gives some 

 details of the funeral, and speaks of the profound feeling of regret 

 and respect exhibited by the large number of all ranks who 

 attended. 



His " Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry," which were edited in 

 1826 by his brother, may be said to be a landmark as regards 

 those studies, and it still continues to be valued by Saxon scholars. 



I have been told he was of dark complexion, with black hair, 

 and any stranger meeting him would have been struck by his 



* An. Phil. 

 ♦ f 1809. Prefatory notice to " Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry." 



