Comments
VENN
Adm. pens. (age 19) at TRINITY, July 3, 1764. S. of John, of London. School, Harrow. ' Matric. Michs. 1764; Scholar, 1765; B.A. 1768; M.A. 1771. Ord. priest (London) June 10, 1770; R. of St John's, Lewes, 1774-99. V. of St John's, Southover, Lewes, 1784. V. of West Wittering, Sussex, 1784-93. Father of Daniel (1804) and the next.
Died in 1784. Mem. in St. John sub Castro, Lewes (see Sussex. Arch Coll. vol. 71, p. 136.) See also Burke's Landed Gentry, 1894, p. 430 for pedigree.
Venn's statement that he was vicar of West Wittering 1784 - 93 cannot be correct.