VENN: Adm. sizar (age 16) at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 8, 1679. S. of Hilkiah, artificer. B. in Hosier Lane, Smithfield, London. School, Bradley, Suffolk. ' Matric. 1679; B.A. 1683-4; M.A. 1687. Fellow, 1685-95. R. of Wittering, Northants., 1687; ejected, 1690, as non-juror. Chaplain to Bishop Ken. Kept a boarding-house for Westminster scholars. Consecrated a non-juror Bishop, Jan. 25, 1720-1. Author, Vindication of the Church of England, and other works. Died Nov. 25, 1724. Buried in St Margaret's, Westminster. Father of John (1726), Thomas (1724) and William (1722). (D.N.B.)
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