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Venn
LL.D. 1834, incorp. from Oxford. [Eldest s. of the Rev. Joseph (Christ Church, Oxford, 1768), V. of Orton-on-the-Hill, Leics. (and Mary, dau. of John Machin, of Kensington). B. Sept. 14, 1775. School, Westminster.] Matric. from Christ Church, Oxford, May 30, 1793; B.A. (Oxford) 1797; B.C.L. (Oxford) 1800; D.C.L. (Oxford) 1804. Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, 1809-55. Adm. an advocate of Doctors' Commons, 1804. Judge of the Cinque Ports, 1809-55. M.P. for St Mawes, 1817-26; for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 1826-30. Judge of Gloucester Consistory Court, 1846-55. Principal Commissioner for final adjudication of the French claims under treaties of 1815 and 1818, in 1833. F.R.S., 1840. Married, Mar. 19, 1807, Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. Walter Bagot, V. of Blithfield, Staffs., and had issue. Died Feb. 24, 1855. (Burke, P. and B. and L.G.; Al. Oxon.; D.N.B.; Return of M.Ps.; W. R. Williams, MSS.)
Not a cleric