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Venn: Adm. Fell.-Com. (age 29) at PETERHOUSE, Apr. 6, 1829. [S. of John, Col. commandant of volunteers, of Bath. B. there Apr. 4, 1800. Educated at Sandhurst. Entered the Army; Ensign, 1st Foot, 1819; Lieut., 2nd W. India Regt., 1824; Capt., 69th Foot, 1826-8.] Matric. Easter, 1829; B.A. 1833; M.A. 1837. Of Hertford Bridge, Hants., and of Steepleton, near Dorchester, in 1834. C. of Gateley, Hants. C. of Winterbourne-Abbas, Dorset, in 1837. R. of Charlton-in-Dover, Kent, 1837-45. Consular Chaplain at Cologne, July 18, 1853; retired on pension, Jan. 1, 1866. Lived latterly at Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Invented an ambulance car for conveying the wounded off the field of battle, which was adopted by the Emperor Louis Napoleon. Patented Glover's anchor falls, used in R.N. and merchant service, and an instrument for measurement of angles. Member, Royal Thames Yacht Club. Author, The Patriarchate of Britain; Figmentum Papale; The Fruits of Endowments; The Polymeter or Quintant, etc. Died Aug. 25, 1881, at Brading vicarage, Ryde, where John (1842) was V., and which Boase wrongly describes as the residence of his son John. (T. A. Walker, 437; Cant. Act Bk.; Foster, Index Eccles.; Crockford; Boase, v. 425.)