VENN: Adm. at KING'S (age 17) a scholar from Eton, 1597. S. of Sir Marmaduke, Knt., of Constable Burton, North Riding of Yorkshire. ' Matric. c. 1597; B.A. 1601-2; M.A. 1605; B.D. 1615. Fellow, 1600-16. R. of Spennithorne, Yorks., 1615-49. R. of Thornton Watlass, 1618-26. Married Helen, dau. of Thomas Horton, of Burnby, Yorks. Died 1649. Brother of Thomas (1593) and William (1598). (Vis. of Surrey, 1623; Burke, Ext. Bart.; Surtees Soc., 36.)
His dau. Helen m. in 1645 Thomas Crosfield [11898], who succeeded Wyvill at Spennithorne.