He was also editor of an expurgated version of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as prepared by his uncle.
He was educated at Hyde Abbey School, Winchester, and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.
[1] In 1803 he was appointed curate of Leyton, Essex; and after holding the livings of Ash and Ridley, and of Addington, Kent, he became in 1834 incumbent of the church at Sydenham.
[2] He edited with Launcelot Sharpe the Greek version of the Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes.
He was also editor of the expurgated edition of Edward Gibbon (1826) prepared by his uncle, Thomas Bowdler the elder.