VENN
Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, June 24, 1767. S. of Edmund, of London. School, Westminster. ' Matric. Michs. 1767; Scholar, 1768; B.A. 1771; M.A. 1774. Fellow, 1772. Seatonian Prize, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, 1783, 1784, 1785. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) Oct. 6, 1771; priest (Norwich) Oct. 28, 1772. Usher at Westminster School, 1770-88; such a slack disciplinarian that the boys in his form used ‘to stick his wig full of paper darts in school’ (Southey's Life and Correspondence, I. 135-6). Kept a small boardinghouse on the Terrace in Dean's Yard, Westminster, which was subsequently amalgamated with ‘Farren's,’ whose owner, Mrs Farren, he married, May 1, 1788. Author, Poems and Sermons; joint author, with Robert Carr, of a tragedy called Eugenia. Died c. 1795. (Record of Old Westminsters; Northants. Clergy.)