Addington Venables

Addington Robert Peel Venables, D.D.[1] (1827–1876) was an Anglican colonial bishop[2] in the 19th century.[3]

Addington Venables

Life

He was the son of Thomas Venables, private secretary to Henry Addington and then Sir Robert Peel, two Prime Ministers who were his godfathers and from whom he took his forenames; his mother Anne King was daughter of John King.[4] He was educated at Eton College. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1845, graduating B.A. in 1848. He was consecrated Bishop of Nassau in 1863.[1][5][6] He died in post in 1876.[7]

Family

His son, Major Charles John Venables of the Gloucestershire Regiment, served with distinction in the Boer War and was mentioned in despatches, won the Queen's Medal with two clasps and the DSO.[8] He was killed at Gallipoli in 1915.

Notes
  1. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Venables, Addington Robert Peel
  2. Project Canterbury
  3. Diocesan history
  4. "Addington Venables, Bishop of Nassau, by W.F.H. King (1877), Chapter I". Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  5. Debrett's Illustrated Peerage, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Under the Immediate Revision and Correction of the Peers. Bosworth. 1865. p. 391.
  6. ECCLESIASTICAL NEWS Liverpool Mercury etc (Liverpool, England), Saturday, December 5, 1863; Issue 4937 Bishopric of Nassau
  7. National Archives
  8. “Who was Who”1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
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