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VENN as BLANSHARD
Adm. sizar at JESUS, June 26, 1770. Of Yorks. [Probably s. of Thomas, Registrar of the Court of the Peculiar of Snaith, Yorks.] ' Matric. Michs. 1771; Scholar, 1771; B.A. 1775; M.A. 1778. Fellow, 1776-97. Ord. priest (Lincoln, Litt. dim. from Ely) Sept. 4, 1773. Chaplain to the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment. Arrived there, 1780; Garrison Chaplain, 1782; Senior Presidency Chaplain, 1788; resigned, Mar. 1797. Sailed for Europe, and was lost in a shipwreck off the French coast, Nov. 23, 1797. (Bengal Eccles. Establishment; A. Gray.)