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VENN: Adm. pens. at QUEENS', June 23, 1718. Of Hertfordshire. 6th s. of Peter (1673), V. of Aldenham. B. Mar. 3, 1700-1. School, Hackney, under his brother Henry. ' Matric. 1718-9; B.A. 1721-2; M.A. 1725; D.D. 1746. Fellow, 1723-34. Ord. deacon (Lincoln) Sept. 21, 1724; priest (Norwich) Sept. 1726. V. of Hursley, Hants., 1726. R. of St Botolph, Cambridge, 1727. Chaplain to the King. R. of Whitchurch, Salop, 1746-69. Canon of Windsor, 1749-55. Bishop of Llandaff, 1755-61. Bishop of St Asaph, 1761-9. Died at Bath, June 3, 1769. Buried at Hackney. Brother of Henry (1706). (F.M.G., 1046; Browne Willis, St Asaph.)