Edmund Venables (5 July 1819 in Queenhithe, London – 5 March 1895 in Lincoln) was an English cleric and antiquarian.
[1][2] Venables was ordained deacon by Ashurst Gilbert, the bishop of Chichester in 1844, as curate to Archdeacon Julius Hare, rector of Hurstmonceux in Sussex, and remained there until 1853.
[1] Venables was appointed by Bishop John Jackson as his examining chaplain at Lincoln, and continued in that position when his diocesan was translated to London in 1869.
[1] Venables translated in 1864 Karl Wieseler's Chronological Synopsis of the Four Gospels, which was included in 1877 in Henry Bohn's Theological Library, and he edited in 1869 a translation by his brother G. H. Venables of Friedrich Bleek's Introduction to the Old Testament, reproduced in 1875 in Bohn's Ecclesiastical Library.
[1] Venables married at St Michael's Church, Highgate on 8 September 1847, Caroline Mary, daughter of Henry Tebbs, proctor of Doctors' Commons.