Venn
Adm. pens. (age 18) at CAIUS, July 7, 1825. [3rd] s. of John, shoe-maker, of Mallow, Ireland. B. there [1806]. Educated at Mallow. [Showed extraordinary powers in mathematics before the age of 13; at 18 he had refuted John Mackey on the duplication of the cube.] ' Matric. Michs. 1825; B.A. (3rd Wrangler) 1829; M.A. 1832. Fellow, 1829; Dean, 1831-3. Ord. deacon (Chichester) 1831. F.R.S. 1834. ‘He fell into dissipated habits, and in December 1832 left Cambridge, with his Fellowship under sequestration for the benefit of his creditors.’ Resided for some time in Ireland, then settled in London, 1836. Examiner in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in London University, 1838. Author, Refutation of a pamphlet by J. Mackey; Principles of Electricity; On the Theory of Algebraic Equations, etc. Died Mar. 12, 1843. See De Morgan's account of him in the Supplement to the Penny Encyclopaedia. (Venn, II. 196; De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes; D.N.B.; G. Mag., 1843, I. 545.)