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VENN: Adm. at KING'S, a scholar from Eton, 1652. S. of Ralph (1614), V. of Billingsley, Salop. B. there, June 29, 1636. Adm. at Queen's College, Oxford, Nov. 10, 1654; M.A. (Oxford) 1659; B.D. and D.D. 1682. Bodley's librarian, 1665-1701. [Precentor of Salisbury, 1660-6.] Preb. 1660-1703. Archdeacon of Gloucester, and R. of Dursley, Gloucs., 1678-1703. Laudian Professor of Arabic, 1691-1703. Regius Professor of Hebrew, and canon of Christ Church, 1697-1703. Assisted Walton in the publication of the Persian and Syriac versions of the Polyglott Bible. Government interpreter of Oriental languages. Died at Christ Church, Oxford, Feb. 14, 1702-3. (Harwood; D.N.B.)
Venn seems mistaken as to the Precentor of Salisbury 1660-66 as that is more likely ID 58376 who was DD in 1660.