Person Venn; John (1834 - 1923) Venn John 1834 - 1923 British Male Drypool, Hull, England 04 August 1834 His home, Chaucer Road, Cambridge 04/04/1923 19230404 Burial: Trumpington, Cambridge, England

Petersfield House, Parkside, Cambridge (1882); Chaucer Road, Cambridge

Clergyman, Church of England Probability Education: Highgate School; Islington School; Caius College, Cambridge. BA (1857), MA (1860), ScD (1884) Career: Fellow, Caius College, Cambridge (1857-1923); President (1912-1913); ordained deacon (1858); ordained priest (1859); Curate, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire (1858-1859); Curate, Mortlake, Surrey (1860-1862); Lecturer in Logic and Moral Philosophy, Cambridge (1862); Huslean Lecturer (1869); invented a bowling machine for cricket; gave his collection of books on logic to Cambridge University Library Memberships: FSA (1892); Cambridge Antiquarian Society (President 1907-1908) Son of Rev Henry Venn and his wife Martha, daughter of Nicholas Sykes of Swanland, York; married (1867) Susannah Carnegie, daughter of Rev Charles Welland Edmonstone; father of John Venn, compiler of 'Alumni Cantabrigiensis' Fellow 07/06/1883 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Venn Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series A 1926 vol 110 pp x-xi, plate, signed by W B H ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-8280 4 Aug 1834 - 4 Apr 1923 NA6576 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 02/04/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes a3a71449-9bb8-4894-be98-e4edaab8a14c