Venn: Student of Peterhouse. Of Leicestershire. School, Westminster. B.A. 1543-4; M.A. 1550; B.D. 1560; D.D. 1564. Fellow, 1550. Adm. at Gray's Inn, 1541. Ord. priest (Ely) July 7, 1560. In exile under Queen Mary. Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, 1559-61. Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1560-7. Master of Trinity, 1561. Vice-Chancellor, 1564-5; 1566. Preb. of Ely, 1564. Prominent Calvinist at Cambridge. Died June 6, 1567. Will proved (V.C.C.)i567. Brother of John (1548). (Cooper, 1. 245; D.N.B.)