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Venn
Adm. pens. (age 21) at CAIUS, Feb. 28, 1812. S. of Richard, solicitor, of Tonbridge. B. there 1790. School, Chelsea. ' Matric. Michs. 1812; B.A. 1816; M.A. 1819. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Feb. 18, 1818. Took Holy Orders, and was curate successively at various places in Sussex. C. of Brasted, Kent, 1822-33. Professor of Political Economy at King's College, London, 1833-5. Professor of Political Economy and History at the East India College at Haileybury, 1835-55. Commissioner under the Tithe Commutation Act, 1836-51. Secretary to the Capitular Commission, 1851-3. Third Charity Estate Commissioner, 1853-5. Wellknown as a historical economist and a critic of Ricardo. Author, Lectures on Political Economy; Rent, etc. Married, 1823, Charlotte Altree, of Brighton. Died Jan. 26, 1855, at Haileybury. (Venn, II. 159, which gives died Jan. 20; Boase, II. 140; Inns of Court; D.N.B.; W. Whewell.)