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In VENN [note discrepancy on ordination]
Adm. pens. (age 15) at ST JOHN'S, Dec. 2, 1774. S. of the Rev. - [William (1750)] C. of Rainham, Norfolk (and Lucy, dau. of Robert Dunham). B. at Rainham, Norfolk, June 8, 1759.] A pupil of the Rev. William Sheepshanks at Grassington, Yorks. ' Matric. Michs. 1775; Scholar, 1775; LL.B. 1781; LL.D. 1801. Ord. deacon (Clonfert and Kilmacduagh for Carlisle), Sept. 18, 1785; priest (Clonfert and Kilmacduagh), August 30, 1786. P.C. of Holme, Lancs., 1797-1821. V. of Whalley, 1809-21. R. of Heysham, 1813-19. V. of Blackburn, 1818-21. F.R.S., 1818. Married, Jan. 13, 1783, Lucy, dau. of Thomas Thoresby, of Leeds. An accurate and learned antiquary. Author, History of the Original Parish of Whalley; History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven; Life and Correspondence of Sir George Radcliffe, etc. Died Dec. 18, 1821, at Blackburn vicarage. Left Roman antiquities, including an altar to Apollo, to St John's, now in the College Library. Father of Robert N. (1821) and William (1815). (St John's Coll. Adm., IV; Burke, L.G.; Foster, Index Eccles.; D.N.B.)