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Venn
dm. pens. (age 17) at TRINITY, Jan. 5, 1801. S. of Robert [D.D.] [a clergyman who had a celebrated preparatory school at Sunbury, c. 1800-15], of Putney, London. School, Eton. Scholar, 1802; matric. Lent, 1804; B.A. 1805; M.A. 1808. Ord. deacon (Winchester) 1807; priest, 1808. R. of Wimborne St Giles, Dorset, 1823-65. Preb. of Salisbury, 1841-65. Author, The Faithful Shepherd and other Sermons. Died Jan. 26, 1865. (Eton Sch. Lists; Crockford; Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1865, I. 384; Clergy List.)