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VENN: Adm. pens. (age 17) at PETERHOUSE, Mar. 30, 1665. Of Norfolk. Perhaps s. of John (1623). Schools, Scarning, Norfolk and Hertford. Scholar, 1666-7; ' Matric. 1667; B.A. 1668-9; M.A. 1672. Fellow, 1670-5. Ord. priest (Ely) May 29, 1670. Probably V. of Stepney, Middlesex, 1679-1718, and R. of Christ Church, Spitalfields, till 1718. Married (1) Hester Styles; (2) Dorothy Hickson. Died July 23, 1718. Buried at Wangford, Suffolk. Perhaps brother of George (1661), etc.; father of Robert (1713) and John (1711). (Blomefield, I. 545; Hennessy, 411.)