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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Oct. 10, 1781. S. of Percy [an Offier in the R.N.], of Winchester. [B. June 17, 1764.] School, Charterhouse [and Westminster], London. ' Matric. Michs. 1781. R. of St Martin-by-Looe, Cornwall, 1790-1807. R. of Itchen-Stoke, Hants., 1796-1817. R. of Winslade, 1790-4 and again 1796-1811. R. of Blackford, Somerset, 1794-6. Chaplain in Ordinary to the Prince Regent. P.C. of Swingfield, Kent, 1817-26. R. of High Roding, Essex, 1817-34. Married, Nov. 29, 1796, Anne, eldest dau. of the Rev. William Johnson Temple, V. of St Gluvias, Cornwall (the friend of James Boswell). Resided latterly at Outreau, near Boulogne. Author, A Father's Reasons for being a Christian, etc. Died in 1834, aged 69, at Brussels. Nephew of the above, with whom he is very often confused. (Record of Old Westminsters; Boase, Biblio. Cornub., 524; Clerical Guide; Burke, P. and B.; G. Mag., 1834, I. 662.)