fa bro, John VENN (1802-1890), Wrangler and Fellow of Queens’ Coll., Cambridge; much practical skill and success in philanthropic schemes in his parish of St. Peter’s at Hereford; he started a steam corn-mill, which was so successful that it led to many other developments in the way of aiding the industrious—­e.g., a loan department, which, by 1848, had advanced some L18,000 to various poor and struggling persons, and an extensive experimental garden for teaching garden allotment and small farm work, etc.

fa si son, Sir James Fitzjames STEPHEN (1829-1894), distinguished judge; in earlier life journalist, essayist, and reviewer; then Legal Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India; author of legal works.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

fa si son, Sir Leslie STEPHEN (1832-1904), K.C.B., Litt.D., at one time famous as a mountaineer; eminent literary editor and critic; President of the Ethical Soc.; editor of the earlier volumes of the “Dictionary of National Biography”; author of many works, including a biography of his brother.

fa fa fa, Henry VENN (1725-1797), an evangelical divine, a man of remarkable energy and force of character; Fellow of Queens’ Coll., Cambridge, 1749-1757; curate of Clapham, 1754; vicar of Huddersfield, 1759; rector of Yelling, 1771-1797; author of the “Complete Duty of Man.”—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

fa fa fa fa, Richard VENN (1691-1740), a learned divine; rector of St. Antholin’s, London, 1725-1739.  He acquired some prominence by publicly objecting to the appointment of Dr. Rundle, a latitudinarian, to the bishopric of Gloucester, on the ground of unorthodox views.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

fa si da, Emelia BATTEN, afterwards Mrs. Russell Gurney; distinguished by her artistic taste and accomplishments; author of “Dante’s Pilgrims’ Progress.”—­["Letters,” with a brief biography, by Ellen Gurney, 1902.]

me fa bro, Daniel SYKES (1766-1832), F.R.S., Fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge; Recorder and M.P. for Hull; prominent as an early supporter of the Reform Movement.

me fa fa, Joseph SYKES (1723-1805), large and successful merchant in Hull, where he was the principal founder of the trade in Swedish iron; Mayor and Sheriff of Hull, and D.L. of the E. Riding.

For further particulars of the Venn family, see “Venn Family Annals,” by Dr. John Venn (Macmillan and Co., 1904).

Robert #WARINGTON# (b. 1838), F.R.S., Examiner in Agricultural
    Science to the Board of Education since 1894; Professor of Rural
    Economy, Oxford, 1894-1897; author of twenty-six papers in the
    “Transactions” of the Chemical Soc., “The Chemistry of the Farm”
    (seventeenth edition), “Lectures on the Rothamsted Experiments,”
    and “Lectures on the Physical Properties of the Soil.”—­["Who’s
    Who.”]

fa, Robert WARINGTON (1807-1867), F.R.S., chemist, pharmacist, and naturalist; founded in 1841, and was for ten years secretary of the Chemical Soc.; originator of the Aquarium; the author of many papers on chemical and natural history subjects.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]