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VENN: Adm. pens. (age 17) at PETERHOUSE, June 17, 1670. Of Wiltshire. Doubtless s. and h. of Giles, of Slyfield Green, and R. of St Nicholas, Guildford, Surrey. School, Westminster. ' Matric. 1670; Scholar, 1670; B.A. 1673-4; M.A. 1677. Fellow, 1675-85. Incorp. at Oxford, 1680. Minister of Little St Mary's, Cambridge, 1677-c. 83. Succeeded his father as R. of St Nicholas, Guildford, 1679-92. Buried there Mar. 23, 1692-3. One of these names chaplain in the Navy, 1689-1711. (See Al. Oxon. for contemporary namesakes, but Foster has apparently confused them.) (Vis. of Surrey, 1662; T. A. Walker, 142; Manning and Bray, I. 68, where he is wrongly identified with the preb. of Winchester, who died in 1687; see Le Neve, Fasti, III. 34.)