VENN (as TENISON): Adm. at CORPUS CHRISTI, 1711 (impubes). S. of Edward (1690), of Sundridge, Kent. Schools, Croydon and Sevenoaks. Migrated to Clare, Mar. 31, 1716. LL.B. 1721; LL.D. from Trinity Hall, 1726. Fellow of Trinity Hall, 1725-8. Incorp. at Oxford, 1729. Adm. at the Middle Temple, Nov. 22, 1721. Ord. deacon (Oxford) Sept. 25, 1726; priest (Ely) Feb. 26, 1727-8. Succeeded his father as Archdeacon of Carmarthen, 1727-42. V. of Lydd, Kent, 1727-42. R. of Chiddingstone, 1727-42. Chancellor of the diocese of Oxford, 1734-42. Preb. and commissary of Canterbury, 1739-42. Died May 7, 1742, aged 41. Buried in Canterbury Cathedral. (Masters, 403; Al. Oxon.; G. Mag.; Misc. Gen. et Her., 3rd S., II. 147.)
[Discrepancy of a year between ordination as priest between Venn and Database, but latter is evidently correct.