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VENN
Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Feb. 15, 1823. [Eldest] s. of the Rev. Thomas [Hockin] (1846). B. [May 16, 1805], at Bridgerule, Devon. School, Eton. ' Matric. Easter, 1823; B.A. 1828; M.A. 1832. Migrated to Sidney Sussex; B.D. 1839. Fellow of Sidney Sussex. Cricket blue, 1827. Ord. deacon (Exeter) 1828; priest, 1829. Assistant C. of Great St Mary's, Cambridge, -1841-3. V. of Bridgerule, Devon, 1844-72. Married at Cambridge, 1844, Eliza Anne, dau. of Major-Gen. Johnstone Napier. Author, Tracts for the Times on Political Subjects, etc. Died Mar. 17, 1872. Father of Herbert N. (1871); brother of George T. (1834). (Eton Sch. Lists; Boase, II. 231; Boase, Biblio. Cornub., I. 299; Book of Blues; Clergy List; Crockford; C. R. Hudleston.)