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Venn
Adm. pens. at CHRIST'S, Feb. 8, 1823. S. of Bingham, Colonel. [B. 1804, in London. School, Lausanne.] ' Matric. Michs. 1823. Migrated to Corpus Christi, Jan. 5, 1824; of Midds.; Scholar; B.A. 1827; M.A. 1830. Ord. deacon (Chichester) 1828; priest (Ely), 1829; R. (sinecure) of Westbourne. Sussex, 1829-60. V. of Mary Church with Coffinswell, Devon, 1855-60. Chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter. A zealous tractarian. Author, Confirmation and First Communion; Postils, or Short Sermons, adapted from the Fathers; Lectures on Tractarianism; Forest Life; The Erne, its Legends and its Flyfishing, etc. Died June 25, 1860, at Mary Church. (Peile, II. 411; Boase, II. 1120; Crockford; G. Mag., 1860, II. 210; D.N.B.)