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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 18) at CHRIST'S, Jan. 25, 1759. S. of Robert, gent., of Braintree, Essex. B. there. [Bapt. Sept. 26, 1739.] School, Eton. ' Matric. Easter, 1759; LL.B. 1797. Incorp. at St Alban Hall, Oxford, June 20, 1798; D.C.L. (Oxford) 1798. Ord. deacon (Norwich) Dec. 19, 1762; priest, 1763. R. of Felbrigge and Aylmerton, Norfolk, 1763-1812. Preb. of Westminster, 1797. Dean of Wells, 1799-1812. Married, June 30, 1767, Catherine Doughty, of Hanworth Park, Norfolk, and had issue. His son William succeeded his half-uncle, the Rt. Hon. William Windham, and took his name. Died Nov. 27, 1812, at the Deanery, Wells. 'Monumental inscription.'M.I. in Wells Cathedral, which says that he died on Nov. 28, 1812. (Eton Coll. Reg.; Al. Oxon.; Peile, II. 268; C. R. Hudleston.)