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VENN: Adm. pens. (age 17) at CAIUS, Apr. 28, 1781. S. of John Harvey, of Eye, Suffolk. B. [June 19, 1763], at Roydon, Norfolk. Schools, Botesdale and Bury St Edmunds. ' Matric. Lent, 1782; B.A. 1785; Scholar, 1788; M.A. 1788. Dean and Rhetoric Praelector, 1787. Ord. deacon (Ely) Sept. 25, 1785; priest, Oct. 28, 1787. V. of Swaffham Prior, Cambs., 1787-1848. Preb. of Ely, 1802-48. Married, 1788, Mary, dau. of William Heberden, M.D. Of Bottisham Hall and Anglesey Abbey, Cambs. He might never have attained to any local standing of importance, but for the circumstances of his coming into the Bottisham Hall property in Cambridgeshire quite in early life, on the decease of Soame Jenyns, second cousin to my father, and well known in the Literature of this Country, who died in 1787, leaving no issue. This of course established my father as one of the Gentlemen of the County. He was a Canon of Ely, or Prebendary as it was then called, a Magistrate, also, and he had a great knowledge of Farming, being Chairman of the Board of Agriculture in London. He was also Chairman of the Bedford Level Corporation, 1830 (Leonard Jenyns, Chapters in My Life, 10). Died Feb. 1848. Buried at Bottisham. Father of the above, the next, and Charles (1815). (Venn, II. 105; Burke, L.G.; Clergy List; Bury Gr. Sch. Reg.; Foster, Index Eccles.)