He attended St Bees School before entering Trinity College, Cambridge as a sizar in 1749.

He was appointed Master of Trinity in 1789, and in 1791 served as university Vice-Chancellor.

He is mainly remembered for depriving the Cambridge classicist Richard Porson of his income, apparently in an attempt to force him to take Holy Orders.

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