Addington Robert Peel Venables,

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s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Venables, Addington Robert Peel (1827–1876) was an

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colonial bishop in the 19th century.

Life

He was the son of Thomas Venables, private secretary to

Henry Addington Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (30 May 175715 February 1844) was a British Tories (British political party), Tory statesman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804 and as Speaker of the House of Commons (U ...

and then

Sir Robert Peel Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–183 ...

, two Prime Ministers who were his godfathers and from whom he took his forenames; his mother Anne King was daughter of John King. He was educated at

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. He matriculated at

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in 1845, graduating B.A. in 1848. He was consecrated Bishop of Nassau in 1863. He died in post in 1876.

Family

His son,

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Charles John Venables of the

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, served with distinction in the

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and was mentioned in despatches, won the Queen's Medal with two clasps and the DSO. “Who was Who”1897-1990 London,

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, 1991 He was killed at

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in 1915.

External links

Memorial to Addington Robert Peel Venables in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, with biography

Notes

1827 births 1876 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford 19th-century Anglican bishops in the Caribbean Anglican bishops of Nassau {{bahamas-bio-stub