VENN as Horatio:
Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 27, 1823. [3rd] s. of Thomas (1792) [2nd] Baron Lilford, of Northants. [B. Nov. 28, 1805. School, Harrow.] ' Matric. Michs. 1824; M.A. 1826; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1854. Ord. deacon (Chester) Jan. 10, 1830; priest, Dec. 18, 1831; C. of Burnley, 1830-1. R. of Warrington and Rural Dean of Cheshire, 1831-54. Established the Training College at Chester, and an institution at Warrington for the education of the daughters of the clergy. Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1854-77. Involved himself in much litigation on behalf of the rights of his See. Married, Feb. 21, 1833, Percy Gore, eldest dau. of William Currie, of E. Horsley Park, Surrey, and had issue. Author, religious. Died May 31, 1877, at Bournemouth. Brother of Atherton L. (1829). (Harrow Sch. Reg.; St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 433; Northants. Clergy, XI. 59; Boase, II. 1617, which gives ‘b. Nov. 20’; Crockford; D.N.B.; The Guardian, June 6, 1877.)