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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 17) at ST JOHN'S, May 7, 1799. [4th] s. of Henry, Esq. [one of the Founders of the Church Missionary Society], banker, of Fleet Street, London, and of Mitcham Grove, Surrey [and Lydia Henrietta, dau. of Isaac Malortie, of Hanover and London]. [B. July 14, 1781, in London.] [School, private.] Matric. Michs. 1802; 2nd Smith's prize, 1803; 2nd Chancellor's medal, 1803; B.A. [2nd Wrangler) 1803; M.A. 1806. Fellow, 1806-11. Seatonian prize, 1807. Ord. deacon (Winchester) 1804; priest, 1806; Chaplain to the Dean of Winchester, and C. of Alton, Hants., 1804-7. V. of Blandford Forum, Dorset, 1807-20. R. of Godstone, Surrey, 1820-65. Rural Dean of South-East Ewell, 1829-65. Archdeacon of Winchester, 1829-47. Canon Residentiary of Winchester, 1831-60. Select Preacher, 1841. Archdeacon of Surrey, 1847-65. A great supporter of religious societies. Held a yearly missionary gathering at Godstone. Among his friends were Hannah More, Wilberforce, Venn, and Macaulay. There are many interesting references to him in Woodforde Papers and Diaries (1932). Married, July 4, 1811, Jane Isabella, only dau. of Richard Holden, of Moorgate, Yorks. Died Jan. 15, 1865, at Godstone. Buried there. Monumental inscription. Author, Sermons, etc. Father of Charles R. (1832), Arthur M. (1840), James S. (1842) and George T. (1839). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV. 306; Burke, L.G., 1939; Crockford; D.N.B.; Boase, I. 1485; G. Mag., 1865, 1. 249-50; Edw. Hoare, Hoare Pedigrees, 52; P.B. G. Binnall.)