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VENN (as Zachariah Pearce): Full Text:
Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, June 8, 1710. S. of Thomas, of London, distiller in Holborn. School, Westminster. ' Matric. 1710; Scholar, 1711; B.A. 1713-4; M.A. 1717; Fellow, 1716. D.D. (Lambeth). Ord. deacon (Ely) Dec. 22, 1717; priest, June 8, 1718. Chaplain to Lord Chancellor Macclesfield. R. of Stapleford Abbotts, Essex, 1719-22. F.R.S., 1720. R. of St Bartholomew, Royal Exchange, 1720-4. Chaplain to the King, 1721-39. R. of St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1724-56. Dean of Winchester, 1739. Bishop of Bangor, 1748. Bishop of Rochester, 1756-74. Dean of Westminster, 1756-68. Author, theological and classical. Died at Ealing, Middlesex, June 29, 1774, aged 84. Buried in Bromley Church. (D.N.B.; Al. Westmon., 253.).
SEE OXFORD DNB (as Zachary Pearce), 1690-1774, Bishop of Rochester.