Matthew Dawson Duffield

He attended Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He married Elizabeth Fabb. He was ordained deacon in 1817 and priest in 1818. He was a curate at Tottington, Norfolk. He was a perpetual Curate at Layer and Berechurch 1835-1842. He married Frances Amelia. They lived at Wivenhoe House, Wivenhoe in 1841, where they employed a Housekeeper and nine servants. In 1842 he became Vicar of Stebbing where he remained until he died in 1866.