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VENN: Matric. sizar from TRINITY, Easter, 1611. B. 1593, at Whitchurch, Salop. B.A. 1614-5; M.A. 1618; B.D. from Clare, 1624. Fellow of Clare, 1619-32. Ord. deacon (London) Dec. 19, 1619; priest (Peterb.) Sept. 22, 1622. V. of St Sepulchre, Cambridge, 1622-42. R. of Passenham, Northants., 1626-7. University Librarian, 1629-53. Professor of Arabic, 1632-53. V. of Middleton, Norfolk. Married Clemence Godd, 1632. Author, Anglo-Saxon Version of Bede, etc. Died Sept. 25, 1653, aged 60. Will proved 1667 (? 1657). Perhaps brother of Ralph (1623), probably father of the next, of Gregory (1649) and of Ralph (1645). (D.N.B.; Musgrave.)
SEE OXFORD DNB: Wheelocke, Abraham (c.15931653), linguist and librarian