Life

He studied at Christ's Hospital

Christ's Hospital

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, and then Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college has over seven hundred students and fellows, and is the third oldest college of the university. Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its...

. He was admitted B.A. in 1804, and proceeded M.A. in 1815. Taking holy orders, he was appointed perpetual curate of Berden

Berden

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 and vicar of Ugley

Ugley

Ugley is a small hamlet in the non-metropolitan district of Uttlesford in Essex, England. It is about a mile north of Stansted Mountfitchet, and located between Saffron Walden and Bishop's Stortford....

, Essex

Essex

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, 18 February 1817.

He became well known as a preacher in London, at Berkeley and Belgrave Chapels, and at the Foundling and Magdalene Hospitals before 1830. In 1833 he was presented to the perpetual curacy of St Barnabas, Kensington, by the vicar, Joseph Holden Pott

Joseph Holden Pott

Joseph Holden Pott was an English churchman, archdeacon of London from 1813.-Life:He was son of Percivall Pott the surgeon, and was born in his father's house near St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He was educated at Eton College, and sent at an early age to St John's College, Cambridge. He graduated...

. He resigned his Essex livings in 1846, and Kensington in 1848, becoming domestic chaplain to the Duchess of Kent

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

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. He died at Bath on 27 August 1861, a few months after his royal patroness.

Works

He was a prolific writer, compiler, and editor, producing annotated editions of: the works of Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor

Jeremy Taylor was a clergyman in the Church of England who achieved fame as an author during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. He is sometimes known as the "Shakespeare of Divines" for his poetic style of expression and was often presented as a model of prose writing...

 (1820–2); John Lightfoot

John Lightfoot

John Lightfoot was an English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.-Life:...

 (1822–5); Edward Reynolds

Edward Reynolds

Edward Reynolds was a bishop of Norwich in the Church of England and an author.He was born in Holyrood parish Southampton, the son of Augustine Reynolds, one of the customers of the city, and his wife, Bridget....

 (1826); of Nathaniel Hooke

Nathaniel Hooke

Nathaniel Hooke was an English historian.-Life:He was the eldest son of John Hooke, serjeant-at-law, and nephew of Nathaniel Hooke the Jacobite politician. He is thought by John Kirk to have studied with Alexander Pope at Twyford School, and to have formed a lifelong friendship there.He was...

's Roman History (1821); of Simon Patrick

Simon Patrick

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's and William Lowth

William Lowth

-Life:He was the son of William Lowth, an apothecary, who was burnt out in the Great Fire of London, and was born in the parish of St Martin, Ludgate on 3 September 1660. He was educated by his grandfather, the Rev. Simon Lowth, rector of Tilehurst, Berkshire, and was admitted to Merchant Taylors'...

's Biblical commentaries in A Critical Commentary and Paraphrase (1822) (with works of Richard Arnald

Richard Arnald

Richard Arnald was a distinguished English clergyman and biblical scholar.-Life:He was a native of London, and received his education at Bishop Stortford School, whence he proceeded in 1714 to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge...

, Daniel Whitby

Daniel Whitby

Daniel Whitby was a controversial English theologian and biblical commentator. An Arminian priest in the Church of England, Whitby was known as strongly anti-Calvinistic and later gave evidence of strong Arian and Unitarian tendencies....

 and Moses Lowman

Moses Lowman

Moses Lowman was an English nonconformist minister, known as a Biblical commentator.-Life:Born in London, he became a student at the Middle Temple in 1697, but a year later abandoned law for divinity. On 17 September 1698 he entered the university of Leyden, and studied theology at Utrecht under...

); and of Joseph Bingham

Joseph Bingham

Joseph Bingham , English scholar and divine, was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire.He was educated at University College, Oxford, of which he was made fellow in 1689 and tutor in 1691...

's Origines Ecclesiasticæ (1840).

Besides sermons, he also published:

• ‘Excerpta ex variis Romanis poetis,’ London, 1808.
• ‘Practical Lectures upon the Ten First Chapters of the Gospel of St. John,’ London, 1821; with a supplement, 1822.
• ‘The School Shakespeare,’ with notes, London, 1822.
• ‘Sophoclis Ajax,’ Greek and Latin, with notes, London.
• ‘Practical Commentary on our Lord's Sermon on the Mount,’ London, 1852.