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Venn: Adm. pens. (age 18) at TRINITY, May 6, 1760. S. of Sanfoord, of Wakefield, Yorks. School, Bradford (Mr Butler). ' Matric. Michs. 1760; Scholar, 1761; B.A. 1764; M.A. 1767. Ord. deacon (York) Nov. 4, 1764; priest, May 25, 1766. R. of Adel, York, 1766-88. Married, 1780, the widow of the first Earl of Mexborough; of her there is an account, in the form of an epitaph, in The Abbey of Kilkhampton, by Sir H. Croft (1780), in which mention is made of the ferocity of her manners and the wildness of her ambition. Died Oct. 24, 1788