Venables, Edmund

Church of England; b. in London, July 5, 1819; educated at Merchant Taylors School, London (1830-38), and Pembroke College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. (wrangler and second-cla cla ical tripos) 1842, M.A. 1845; ordained deacon 1844, priest 1846; was curate to Archdeacon Julius C. Hare, at Herstmonceux, 1844-53; curate of Bone church, Isle of Wight, 1853-55; examining chaplain to John Jackson, D.D. (d. 1885), while bishop of Lincoln, and chaplain while bishop of London; since 1867 has been canon residentiary and precentor of Lincoln Cathedral; since 1881, diocesan representative in the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He is an Evangelical High Churchman. From childhood he has been devoted to architectural and archaeological pursuits: was one of the founders of the Cambridge Camden Society; one of the first members of the Archaeological Institute. He edited his brother's translation of Bleek's Introduction to the Old Testament, London, 1869, 2 vols. translated and edited Wieseler's Chronological Synopsis of the Four Gospels, 1876; edited, iu the Clarendon Pre series of English cla ics, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progre , Grace Abounding, Relation of the Imprisonment of Mr. John Bunyan, Oxford, 1879; contributed articles Luke, Matthew, Mark, etc., to vols. ii. and iii. of W. L. Alexander's edition of Kitto's Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature, Edinburgh, 1862-66, 3 vols.; articles Jude, etc., to Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, London, 1863; articles Catacombs, Coronation, Ecclesiastical Painting and Sculpture, etc., to Smith and Cheetham's Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, 1875-80, 2 vols.; articles Basil, Chrysostom, Greg or i us Ny enus, Theodoret, etc., to Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography, 1877-86, 4 vols.; article on Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, in British Quarter! i/, 1885; etc.