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VENN
Adm. at KING'S, a scholar from Eton, June 30, 1801. [2nd] s. of Joseph (1768), D.D., Head Master of Harrow. B. there May 3, 1783. Schools, Harrow and Eton. ' Matric. Michs. 1801; Craven Scholar, 1803; Browne Medallist, 1804; B.A. 1805; M.A. 1808. Fellow, 1804-7. Assistant Master at Eton, 1804-23, when he was forced to resign owing to his addiction to boxing. Ord. deacon (Ely) Sept. 3, 1809; priest, Nov. 1, 1809; V. of Tugby, Leics., 1810-35. Married (1) 1807, Anna Dorothea, dau. of Hollamby, a West Indian planter; (2) 1820, Catherine Sarah, dau. of John Bateman Dean, of Clapham House, Sussex, and had issue by both wives. Died Feb. 20, 1835, in Guernsey. Brother of Henry J. T. (1796). (Eton Sch. Lists; Harrow Sch. Reg.; P. E. Towell; Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1835, I. 442, which gives V. of Tugby from 1816.)