VENN: Adm. sizar at EMMANUEL, Jan. 31, 1687-8. Of Lincolnshire. 2nd s. of Godly, of Scremby, Lincs. B. there. Adm. at Oundle School, Aug. 6, 1686, age 14. ' Matric. 1688; B.A. 1691-2; M.A. 1695. Ord. deacon (Peterb.) June 3, 1694, as C. of Oxendon, Northants. Perhaps V. of Weston, Lincs., 1700. F.R.S., 1703. R. of Oxendon, 1707-26. Botanist. County historian. Died July 18, 1726, aged 55. Buried at Oxendon. 'Monumental inscription.'M.I. there. Father of Henry (1724) and John (1713-4). (Al. Oxon. seems to confound him with a contemporary of B.N.C., Oxford, who was ord. priest (Peterb.) Sept. 19, 1697; D.N.B.; H. I. Longden.).
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