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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, July 8, 1756. S. of the Rev. Charles (1711), V. of Great Sandal, Yorks. (and Dorothy, dau. of Gervase Norton, of Wakefield). [B. Sept. 12, 1737.] School, Wakefield. ' Matric. Michs. 1756; Scholar, 1757; Craven Scholar, 1760; Members' prize, 1763; Seatonian prize, 1765; B.A. (3rd Wrangler) 1761; M.A. 1764; D.D. 1805. Fellow, 1762. Ord. deacon, 1761; C. of Chapelthorpe, Yorks., 1761-72. R. of Wycliffe, 1770-93. Chaplain to the Master of the Rolls, 1788. R. of Scrayingham, 1793-5. Preb. of Durham, 1805. Retired to Sandal, 1795. Founder of the Sandal Endowed School. Offered the Bishopric of Carlisle, 1807, but declined it. F.L.S., 1788. Married (1) 1772, Isabella, dau. of the Rev. John Emerson, R. of Durham; (2) 1808, Margaret, dau. of William Brooke, of Field Head, Dodworth, Yorks. Author, Life of Izaac Walton; and theological works. Died Dec. 17, 1815, at Sandal.