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VENN: Adm. sizar (age 15) at CHRIST'S, June 13, 1632. S. of George (1596-7). B. at Alderbury, Wilts. School, Winchester. Matric. 1632; B.A. 1635-6; M.A. 1639; D.D. (Trinity College, Dublin) 1670. Chaplain to Sir Ralph Hopton. An active royalist. Taken prisoner during the war and banished to the West Indies, where he remained till 1660. R. of St Botolph, Billingsgate, 1663-4. R. of Etchingham, Sussex, 1664-70. Bishop of Killala, Ireland, 1670-80; of Ossory, 1680-93. Died Mar. 6, 1693. Will, Dublin. Benefactor to Christ's, and Trinity College, Dublin. Perhaps brother of George (1623). (Peile, I. 420; D.N.B.)