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Venn: Adm. sizar (age 17) at PEMBROKE, Feb. 11, 1803. 3rd s. of the Rev. James (1766), of Knaresborough, Yorks. B. at Littlehampton, Sussex. Bapt. there, May 12, 1785. School, Christ's Hospital. ' Matric. Michs. 1803; B.A. 1808; M.A. 1810. Master of Beverley Grammar School, Yorks., 1808-15. Chaplain of the County bridewell, Gosport, Hants., 1823-50. F.S.A., 1840. Accepted nomination as a poor brother of the Charterhouse in 1853. Author, The Mohammedan System of Theology; The Different Dispensations of the true Religion; also re-edited his grandfather's translation of Horace. Died at the Charterhouse, Jan. 20, 1855.