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VENN
Adm. pens. at CLARE, Nov. 9, 1779. [S. and h. of William (1748), clerk, of Christ Church, Suffolk, and Anne, dau. of Sir Hutchins Williams, Bart., of Clapton, Northants.] B. [1761], at Clapton, Northants. [School, Eton.] ' Matric. Michs. 1780, as Claudius W.; LL.B. 1786. Succeeded to the estate of his mother at The Friars, Chichester. Succeeded his grandfather, Claudius (1717-18) as R. of Clapton, Northants., 1785; reinstated, 1804; R. there until 1845. Doubtless died Oct. 6, 1845. (Eton Sch. Lists give V. of Tuddenham St Mary, 1796, doubtless in error for his brother, Charles William (1787); they also state he must have died before his father, who was succeeded in 1817 by his 2nd s., but Northants. Clergy gives died s.p. Oct. 6, 1845, aged 84, which corresponds with Foster, Index Eccles. and Clergy List; Eton Coll. Reg.)