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Adm. pens. at QUEENS', Feb. 19, 1814. Of Surrey. [Eldest s. of the Rev. John (1776), R. of Clapham (by his 1st wife, Katherine King). B. Feb. 10, 1796, at Clapham.] ' Matric. Lent, 1814; B.A. (19th Wrangler) 1818; M.A. 1821; B.D. 1828. Fellow, 1819-29. Close friend of Charles Simeon, who gave him an oak press, still in possession of the family. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Oct. 31, 1819; priest, June 17, 1821. C. of St Dunstan-in-the-West, 1821-4. Returned to Cambridge, 1824. Dean and College Lecturer. Junior Proctor, 1825-6. Evening Lecturer at Great St Mary's, 1826. R. of Drypool, Hull, 1827-34. R. of St John's, Holloway, 1834-47. Preb. of St Paul's, 1846. Honorary Secretary of the C.M.S. (of which his father was one of the founders), 1841-73. Lived latterly at Sheen, Surrey. A leader of the Evangelical body of the Church of England. Member of the Royal Commissions on Clerical Subscriptions and Ritual Reform. Married, Jan. 21, 1829, Martha, dau. of Nicholas Sykes, of Swanland, near Hull. Author, Life and Letters of Henry Venn (his grandfather); Missionary Life of Xavier, etc. Died Jan. 13, 1873; buried at Mortlake. Portrait by George Richmond in the committee-room of the C.M.S., and marble relief in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral. Brother of John (1823); father of John (1853) and the next. (J. Venn, Annals of a Clerical Family; Crockford; D.N.B.; Clergy List.)