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Venn: Adm. sizar (age 19) at ST JOHN'S, Nov. 2, 1760. S. of James, architect, of Devon. B. at Exeter. School, Tiverton. ' Matric. Michs. 1760; Scholar; B.A. 1765. Migrated to Sidney, July 5, 1801; M.A. 1801. Ord. deacon (Norwich, Litt. dim. from Exeter) Mar. 3, 1765. Head Master of Chudleigh Grammar School (no date recorded). R. of Brushford, Somerset, 1790-1811. V. of Culmstock, Devon, 1801-11. Doubtless took his M.A. degree (in 1801) in order to qualify him under the Canons Ecclesiastical of 1603 to hold two benefices. Said to have been an excellent scholar and critic and to have brought Chudleigh School to a high state of efficiency. Died in 1811. (St John's Coll. [p.19] Adm., III. 670; Cant. Act Bk.; Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1811, II. 195; Carlisle, Endowed Grammar Schools, I. 253.)