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Venn: Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, June 10, 1809. [2nd s. of Thomas, of Gomersal, Yorks. B. 1788.] ' Matric. Michs. 1809; Scholar, 1811; B.A. 1813. D.D. (Canterbury) 1831. Chaplain to the East India Company. Archdeacon and Bishop of Bombay, 1836-51. R. of Bath, Somerset, 1854-9. Married (1) Elizabeth, dau. of James Farish, Esq., surgeon of Cambridge, May 21, 1814, at Gt St Mary's; (2) Catherine Emily, dau. of Colonel Macmahon, E.I.C.S. Died Sept. 5, 1859, aged 71. Buried at Bath.
The Elland Society Minutes, 20 April 1815, suggest that he resigned the curacy of Wellington in 1815, at which point he went to India as 'Chaplain to Bombay'. A former Elland Society pensioner. (ST)