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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, Dec. 13, 1787. [Elder] s. of [Cd.] thomas, of [Littlecroft] Ulverston, Lancs. (and Anne, dau. of William Dickson, of Beck Bank). [B. Dec. 21, 1769. Bapt. Jan. 27, 1770.] Schools [Hawkshead and] Rugby. ' Matric. Michs. 1788; B.A. 1792; M.A. 1795. One of the original members of the ;Apostles; Club. V. of St Mellons with Llanedeyrn, Glam., -1799-1807. V. of St Mary's, Ulverston, 1807-36. V. of Pennington, Lancs., 1806-37. P.C. of Ulverston, 1807-35. V. of Wiveliscombe, Somerset, 1813-37. R. of Norton, Kent, 1816. Married (1) Anne, dau. of Edward King, Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and had issue; (2) Mary Elizabeth, dau. of J. Morland, of Capplethwaite Hall. Died Dec. 23, 1837, aged 68, at Ulverston. Father of Thomas (1825). (Rugby Sch. Reg.; Foster, Index Eccles.; Clerical Guide; G. Mag., 1838, I. 215; T. W. Thompson; Bardsley, Chronicles of the Town and Church of Ulverston, 126.)