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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 10) at ST CATHARINE'S, 20 Apr., 1676. S. of Henry (1644), clerk, R. of Wrentham, Suffolk. B. there, 13 Aug., 1666. Matric. Lent 1679/80; B.A. 1679/80; M.A. from St John's, 1683; B.D. 1691; D.D. (Lambeth) 1707. Fellow of St John's, 1683-94. F.R.S., 1687. Ord. priest (Sarum) 22 Dec., 1689. Chaplain to Daniel (Finch), Earl of Nottingham. V. of Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, Caernarvonshire, 1691. R. of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, 1694. Preb. of Salisbury, 1705. Married Anne Hammond, of St Alban's Court [ Kent], near Canterbury. Distinguished for his early and ripe scholarship. Author, theological, etc. Died 13 Feb., 1726/7. M.I. at Buxted, Sussex (D.N.B.; Musgrave.)
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Entry for cand. for ord. 1689 would appear to be an error if he was ord deacon in 1684 and priest in December 1689 as this entry gives him ord deacon in May 1689