| Administrative History | John Venn (1834-1923), logician and man of letters; son of Henry Venn (1796-1873); BA, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; fellow, 1857; ordained, 1858; studied and taught logic for thirty years from 1862; availed himself of provisions of Clerical Disabilities Act, 1883; from about 1890 onwards devoted himself to university history; his works include The Logic of Chance (1866), Symbolic Logic (1881), The Principles of Empirical Logic (1889), Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College (1897), Alumni Cantabrigienses (vols. i and ii, 1922); FRS, 1883 |