Arthur Venis (4 October 1857 – 5 June 1918)[1] CIE was a British educator and Sanskrit scholar.
of Calcutta and Benares; his younger brother Maurice Dyte Venis was admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1883.
[3] Venis joined the Indian Educational Service in 1881,[1] and started his teaching career as Professor of English, Queen's College, Varanasi.
[9][1] Venis received the CIE in the 1911 Delhi Durbar Honours[9] and was a Member of the Legislative Council of the United Province.
[11] Herbert Niel Randle in a 1926 book review described his work as "in some sense more important to the understanding of Indian logic than that done by any contemporary", because of the emphasis he put on the editing of Nyāya texts.