John Venn
1834–1923
Philosopher and antiquary. Sixth wrangler in the mathematical tripos at Cambridge University, 1857; fellow of Gonville and Caius College, 1857. Ordained priest, 1859; curate of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and Mortlake, Surrey, successively; resigned from the clergy in 1883. Returned to Cambridge in 1862. Lecturer in moral science. The originator of Venn diagrams in On the diagrammatic and mechanical representation of propositions and reasonings (1880). Author of many biographical reference works. FRS 1883.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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