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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 18) at CHRIST'S, May 8, 1767. S. of George [? Professor of Anatomy at Cambridge, 1734-5]. B. at Portsmouth. School, Winchester. ' Matric. Michs. 1767; B.A. (Hon. Wrangler) 1771; M.A. 1805. Ord. priest (Worcester) Apr. 9, 1775; R. of Shaw-cum-Donnington, Berks., 1775. Chaplain to the King. Sub Dean of York, 1805-26. An old and independent member of the Corporation of Portsmouth, to whose exertions (together with those of his brother-in-law, Mr William Goldson) Portsmouth and Portsea owed their police regulations and local improvements. Died Jan. 28, 1826, aged 77.