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Venn is a surname and a given name. It may refer to: Given name * Venn Eyre (died 1777), Archdeacon of Carlisle, Cumbria, England * Venn Pilcher (1879–1961), Anglican bishop, writer, and translator of hymns * Venn Young (1929–1993), New Zealand politician Surname * Albert Venn (1867–1908), American lacrosse player * Anne Venn (1620s–1654), English religious radical and diarist * Blair Venn, Australian actor * Charles Venn (born 1973), British actor * Harry Venn (1844–1908), Australian politician * Henry Venn (Church Missionary Society) (1796-1873), secretary of the Church Missionary Society, grandson of Henry Venn * Henry Venn (Clapham Sect) (1725–1797), English evangelical minister * Horace Venn (1892–1953), English cricketer * John Venn (1834–1923), British logician and the inventor of Venn diagrams, son of Henry Venn the younger * John Venn (academic) (died 1687), English academic administrator * John Venn (politician) (1586–1650), English politician * ...
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Venn Eyre
Venn Eyre was Archdeacon of Carlisle from 2 March 1756 until his death on 18 May 1777. Eyre was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He held livings at Stambourne and Stambridge in Essex and Great Salkeld, Cumberland. References

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John Venn (academic)
John Venn D.D. (died 8 October 1687) was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford. Venn was elected Master (head) of Balliol College, Oxford on 24 April 1678, a post he held until his death in 1687. During his time as Master of Balliol, he was also Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ... from 1686 until 1687. References Year of birth missing 1687 deaths Masters of Balliol College, Oxford Vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford {{UOxford-stub ...
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Richard Venn
Sir Richard Venn or Fenn (died 18 August 1639) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1637. Life Venn was a city of London merchant and a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1619 to 1626 and Master of the Haberdashers Company from 1625 to 1626. On 4 May 1626, he was elected an alderman of the City of London for Castle Baynard ward and was Sheriff of London from 1626 to 1627. He was a member of the committee of the East India Company from 1627 to 1629 and from 1631 to 1637. In 1631 he became Colonel of the Trained Bands until his death, and was president of the Honourable Artillery Company from 1633 to 1634. He was elected alderman for Tower ward in 1634. In 1637, he was elected Lord Mayor of London The Lord Mayor of London is the Mayors in England, mayor of the City of London, England, and the Leader of the council, leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lo ...
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Laurie Venn
Laurie Venn (born 24 August 1953) is a former Australian racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo .... He won the Australian national road race title in 1985. References External links * 1953 births Living people Australian male cyclists Cyclists from Melbourne Sportsmen from Victoria (state) 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-cycling-bio-stub ...
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Kristin Venn
Kristin Venn (born 5 March 1994) is a Norwegian handball player who plays for the Norwegian club Storhamar HE. She was also a part of Norway women's national handball team, Norway's 28-squad for the 2015 World Women's Handball Championship as well as the 28-squad for the 2014 European Women's Handball Championship. She has already participated for Norway's recruit team. She also represented Norway in 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, placing 9th. On 4 October 2017, Venn announced that she would not play anymore for the national team. She was going to focus on playing for her then club Byåsen HE and just enjoy playing handball. She later opened up for the possibility to fight for a spot on the national team, and national team coach Thorir Hergeirsson said Venn was up for a place in the squad for the 2022 European Women's Handball Championship, 2022 European Championship had she not been injured. On 24 October 2024 Venn made a comeback, 7 years and 4 months since ...
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Kim Venn
Kim A. Venn is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Victoria, Canada, and director of the university's Astronomy Research Centre. She researches the chemo-dynamical analysis of stars in the galaxy and its nearby dwarf satellites. Early life and career Venn was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, where she completed her BSc in Physics & Astronomy at the University of Toronto in 1987. She then received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994 working with Christopher Sneden and David L. Lambert on the evolution of massive stars, and pursued postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics/Universitäts-Sternwarte_München working with Rolf-Peter Kudritzki on the properties of massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds and other Local Group dwarf irregular galaxies. She held a Clare Boothe Luce Professorship in Physics & Astronomy at Macalester College from 1996 to 2004, then moved to the University of Victoria in 20 ...
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Kath Venn
Kathleen Joan Venn (12 November 1926 – 26 May 2019) was an Australian politician. Born in Tasmania, she was a Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch), Labor member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1976 to 1982, representing the seat of Electoral division of Hobart, Hobart. In 1982, she was defeated. She ran for the Australian Senate, Senate in the 1984 Australian federal election, 1984 election as an independent (politician), independent affiliated with Senator Brian Harradine, and received 8.6% of the vote, but preferences from Labor and the Nuclear Disarmament Party gave the seventh seat to Australian Democrats, Democrat Norm Sanders, who had 6% of the vote. In 2005 Venn was inducted to the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women for service to the Community. References

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John Archibald Venn
John Archibald Venn (10 November 1883 – 15 March 1958) was a British economist. He was President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1932 until his death, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University 1941–1943, university archivist, and author, with his father, of ''Alumni Cantabrigienses''. His father was logician John Venn (the creator of the Venn diagram). Venn was educated at Eastbourne College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He took his honours in the History Tripos in 1904–1905. During the First World War he was a lieutenant for three years in the Cambridgeshire Regiment and then served as a statistician in the Food Production Department. He served on the Scientific Council of the International Institute of Agriculture The International Institute of Agriculture (IIA) was the first organization to systematically produce and exchange global data on crops, cultivated land, and trade flows. The late 19th century called for a demand in worldwide data on production, s ...
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John Venn (priest)
John Venn (9 March 1759 – 1 July 1813) was a priest of the Church of England who was a central figure of the group of religious philanthropists known as the Clapham Sect. Life He was born at Clapham to the south-west of central London, while his father Henry Venn was curate there, on 9 March 1759. He entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduated B.A. in 1781, and M.A. in 1784. Venn was rector of Little Dunham, Norfolk, from 1783 to 1792, and rector of Holy Trinity Church, Clapham from 1792 until his death. He was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society in 1797, and was a leading abolitionist and philanthropist. These evangelistic and humanitarian interests brought him into close association with abolitionists such as William Wilberforce and Granville Sharp. He ran the school set up by the Society for the Education of Africans which was set up in Clapham in 1799. He died at Clapham on 1 July 1813. A volume of his sermons was published after his death. Som ...
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John Venn (politician)
John Venn (1586 – 28 June 1650) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1641 to 1650. He was one of the regicides of King Charles I. Venn was born in Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset, England, in 1586 and was an apprentice in the Merchant Taylors' Company before becoming a wool and silk merchant. He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Company. Venn was an active member of the Honourable Artillery Company and stood against Marmaduke Roydon for election as captain-leader of the company in 1631; both were disappointed by the imposition of a candidate favoured by the Crown. In September 1640, as one of the leaders of the Puritan militants, he sent a petition to King Charles demanding religious reform. Together with Isaac Penington, he demanded the prosecution of the Earl of Strafford. In 1641, Venn was elected Member of Parliament for City of London in the Long Parliament. In 1642, he fought in the army of the Earl of Essex, and following ...
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John Venn
John Venn, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, FSA (4 August 1834 – 4 April 1923) was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science. In 1866, Venn published ''The Logic of Chance'', a groundbreaking book which espoused the frequency theory of probability, arguing that probability should be determined by how often something is forecast to occur as opposed to "educated" assumptions. Venn then further developed George Boole's theories in the 1881 work ''Symbolic Logic'', where he highlighted what would become known as Venn diagrams. Early life John Venn was born on 4 August 1834 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, to Martha Sykes and Rev. Henry Venn (Church Missionary Society), Henry Venn, who was the rector of the parish of Drypool. His mother died when he was three years old. Venn was descended from a long ...
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Venn Pilcher
Charles Venn Pilcher (known as Venn; 4 June 1879 – 4 July 1961) was a theologian and clergyman born in England. He was also well known as a writer (as well as translator) of hymns. He spent his formative years in England and then moved in 1906 to Canada, where he lived for about three decades. He spent his latter years in Australia. Pilcher was born in Oxford into a well-known clerical family, among the members of which were Henry Venn (1725-1797), John Venn (1759-1813), Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871), Edward Bishop Elliott (1793-1875), Emily Steele Elliott (1836-1807), Henry Venn Elliott (1792-1865), and Henry Venn the younger (1796-1873). He was educated at Charterhouse School and Hertford College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1903. He was curate of St Thomas' Church, Birmingham and then domestic chaplain to Handley Moule, the Bishop of Durham. He was a professor of the New Testament at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto and later of the Old Testament, durin ...
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