Clerical Career
He was ordained as a deacon in 1819, a priest in 1822 and appointed Vicar of Wymewold in 1826 (until 1835).
In 1839 he was appointed Dean of Ely cathedral, Cambridgeshire, a position he held for the rest of his life, some 20 years. Together with the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott he undertook a major restoration of the cathedral building. This included the installation of the boarded ceiling.
While holding this position he wrote a text book on algebra in two volumes, the one called Arithmetical Algebra, and the other Symbolical Algebra.
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