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VENN: Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, July 4, 1796. [4th] s. of Matthias (1761), Archdeacon of Lewes and R. of Buxted, Sussex. [B. Oct. 31, 1778, at Buxted.] Of London. Schools, private. Matric. Michs. 1796; Scholar, 1797; B.A. (2nd Wrangler and 2nd Smith's Prizeman) 1800; Member's Prize (Latin Essay) 1801; M.A. 1803; B.D. 1811; D.D. 1821. Fellow, 1801-13. Moderator, 1807, 1808 and 1809. Proctor, 1808. Hulsean Lecturer, 1811. Ord. deacon (Chichester) 1802; priest (Gloucester) 1803; C. of Buxted, Sussex, 1803. C. of Wrotham, Kent, 1804-6. Select Preacher at the University, 1809, 1810 and 1811. Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1813. V. of Herne Hill, Kent, 1815-16. R. of Buxted, with Uckfield, Sussex, 1815-20. R. of Sundridge, Kent and of St Mary's, Lambeth, 1820-46. Married, Aug. 9, 1813, Maria Frances, dau. of William Bruere (or Bruene (Burke, Extinct Baronetcies)), Esq., of Argyle Street, London. Treasurer and Member of the London Committee of the S.P.C.K. One of the principal promoters of the establishment of King's College, London. Author, Life of Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1821. Attacked Sir William Drummond's theistic work Oedipus Judiacus in Letters to Sir William Drummond, and in Remarks on the same work, 1811-13. Assisted Dr Mant in the compilation of the Family Bible published by the S.P.C.K.; Sermons, 1827, and (posthumously) 1847. Died Jan. 6, 1846. Buried at Lambeth. Monumental inscription there. Father of Charles J. (1838) and William (1843); brother of Francis (1794) and John (next). (Foster, Index Eccles.; D.N.B.; Cant. Act Bk.)