Note 166 — LATER PARSONS OF GRASMERE

One would willingly connect this Grasmere land-holder with the astronomer of the same name who enjoys a place in the National Dictionary of Biography. This remarkable man was born of statesmen parents as near as Whitbeck, under Black Combe, in 1767, and was educated at the Hawkshead Grammar School. His biographer, Dr. Lonsdale, in the Worthies of Cumberland, says, "Between his leaving Hawkshead and his becoming a clergyman of the Church of England I have no facts to guide me: but it may be inferred that he went to Cambridge."