Background
Zouch was the eldest surviving son of Charles Zouch, vicar of Sandal Magna, near Wakefield, and elder brother of Thomas Zouch.
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Education
He was educated at Wakefield School under the Review Benjamin Wilson, and was admitted pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 9 April 1743. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1746 and Master of Arts
Career
In 1750. The set of English verses contributed by him to the Cambridge collection on the peace of 1748 is included in the of Thomas Zouch. He translated into Greek a number of the odes of Horace. Zouch was vicar of his native parish of Sandal Magna from 1754 to 1789.
Towards the close of his life the first stone of a new church at Wakefield was laid by him, and from 8 June 1758 to 31 December 1764 he was governor of Wakefield school.
He was also rector of Tankersley in Yorkshire, and chaplain to the Marchioness of Rockingham. Long letters of the marquis to him are in the thirteenth report of the historical manuscripts commission.
He was a magistrate of the West Riding. He died on 17 June 1795, and on 21 June ‘was buried in his own garden’.
