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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 16) at PETERHOUSE, Oct. 9, 1759. Of Cornwall. 6th s. of Walter, LL.D., clerk, of Madron, Pendeen and Castle Horneck. School, Exeter. ' Matric. Michs. 1759; Scholar; B.A. 1764; M.A. 1767; B.D. 1780. Fellow, 1766-92. Tutor. Nominated for the mastership with F. Barnes, B.D., but the Bishop of Ely rejected the nomination and appointed Dr Longmire, Sept. 27, 1787; a suit ensued between the College and the Bishop of Ely; the College obtained a Mandamus in King's Bench. Dr Barnes was finally appointed in 1788. University Registrary, 1778-1809. Professor of Moral Philosophy, 1788-1809. Minister of Little Saint Mary's, Cambridge, 1773-89. R. of Newton, Suffolk, 1790-1809. V. of Cherryhinton, Cambs., 1789. Married (1) Henrietta, dau. of the Rev. George Serocold, of Cherryhinton, Cambs.; (2) Anne, dau. of the Rev. Thomas Holme, of Holland House, Lancashire, 1800. The first editor of the Cantabrigienses Graduati (London, 1787), Cambridge, 1800. Died Nov. 7, 1809, aged 67. M.I. at Cherryhinton. Brother of Samuel (1757) and William (1759). (T. A. Walker, 319; Scott, MSS.; Boase, Biblioth. Cornub., I. III. Suppl.)