VENN
Adm. pens. (age 17) at CAIUS, Oct. 1811. S. of Francis Ford, of the Barbados, West Indies (by his 1st wife, Elizabeth C. Maynard). B. there [Apr. 27, 1794]. School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1812; B.A. 1816; M.A. 1824. Ord. deacon (London) May 17, 1818; priest, 1819. Returned to the Barbados. Chaplain at Codrington plantation, 1818-27. Principal of Codrington College, 1829-35. Principal of Wells Theological College, 1840-65. Precentor of Wells Cathedral, 1840-68. Prebendary of Wells, 1840-52. Canon Residentiary, 1852-68. Married, Aug. 16, 1819, at St Andrew's Church, Barbados, Ann Brathwaite, dau. of Scawen Kenrick Gibson, and had issue. Author, Sermons, etc. Died Apr. 16, 1868, at West Malvern. M.I. in Wells Cathedral. Half-brother of Humphrey S. (1822) and Francis F. (1821); brother of William M. (1810). (Scott, MSS.; Venn, II. 157; Ecclesiastical Gazette, May, 1868.)