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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 17) at ST JOHN'S, June 27, 1766. S. of Daniel Peter (F.R.S.; D.C.L., Oxon.), physician, of Middlesex. B. [Feb. 19, 1749-50], in the parish of St Ann, Westminster. School, Huntingdon (Mr Unwin). ' Matric. Michs. 1766; B.A. 1770; M.A. 1773; Seatonian prize, 1773 and 1774; D.D. 1787. Fellow, 1773-7. Ord. deacon (London, Litt. dim. from Ely) Dec. 21, 1771; priest, Feb. 27, 1774. For some time Minister of Oxenden Chapel, Oxenden Street, London, where he was greatly admired for his eloquence. Librarian of Archbishop Tenison's Library and Chaplain in Ordinary to the King. F.R.S., 1778. V. of Wootton Bassett, Wilts., 1793-8. Preb. of Worcester Cathedral. R. of Uffington, Lincs., 1798-1803. Preb. of Bangor, 1799-1803. V. of Kewstoke, Somerset, 1777-99. Dean of Bristol, 1800-3. A man of great learning and most amiable manners. Author, Sermons; Poetical Essays. Twice married and had issue ten children. Died, of gout in the stomach, Apr. 11, 1803, at the Deanery, Bristol. M.I. in Bristol Cathedral. Father of Brownlow V. (1803); grandfather of the next. (St John's Coll. Adm., III. 713; G. Mag., 1803, I. 481.)