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Venn
Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Jan. 27, 1819. [5th s. of Edwin Humphrey, of Kingston, Kent. B. there. School, Thorp Arch, Yorks.] ' Matric. Michs. 1819. Migrated to Queens' (because of his attraction to the teaching of Simeon, frowned upon at St John's), June 8, 1820; B.A. (18th Wrangler) 1823; M.A. 1826. Fellow of Queens', 1825. Ord. deacon (Ely) 1823; priest (Lincoln) 1824. C. of Upper Hardres, Kent; C. of St Peter's, Colchester. P.C. of St Paul's, Islington, 1828-61. R. of Pakefield, Suffolk, 1861-5. R. of Rockland St Mary, Norfolk, 1865-79. Married, May 29, 1832, Mary A., dau. of the Rev. Cooper Willyams (1780), R. of Kingston, Kent. Author, What is the True Sense of the Baptismal Service? Died Dec. 25, 1879, aged 80. The Sandys Exhibition was founded at Queens' by subscription in 1861. (Cant. Act Book; Burke, L.G.; The Guardian, Jan. 14, 1880; F. P. White.)