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VENN: Adm. pens. (age 16) at MAGDALENE, June 16, 1691. S. of William (1665). B. in Whitechapel, London, Mar. 1676. School, Merchant Taylors'. ' Matric. 1691; B.A. 1694-5; M.A. 1698. Fellow, 1698. Adm. at the Middle Temple, May 18, 1695. Ord. deacon (London) Sept. 24, 1699. Son-in-law and chaplain of Richard Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough. V. of Fulbourn All Saints, Cambs., 1700. R. of Barnack, Northants., 1706-50. Archdeacon of Stow, 1730-51. R. of Winwick, Northants., 1733-4, and again, 1737-40. Biographer of Bishop Cumberland. Died Jan. 7, 1750-1. Will ('Prerogative Court of Canterbury.'P.C.C.) 1751. Brother of Thomas (1705) and Robert (1699-1700), father of George (1727) and John (1732). (H. I. Longden.)