Education
He was educated at King"s College School and at Pembroke College, Oxford.
He was educated at King"s College School and at Pembroke College, Oxford.
He was successively curate of Street John"s Church, Fitzroy Square, curate of Holy Trinity Church, Kilburn, vicar of Street Paul"s Church, Penzance, secretary of the South American Missionary Society and rector of Bayfield, Holt, Norfolk. He was an English writer of popular non-fiction books, including British Customs: Past and Present, The Folk-lore of Plants, and perhaps most famously, Strange Pages from Family Papers, which was considered a masterpiece of popular historical writing.