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VENN, HENRY (17251797)

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 1008 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VENN, HENRY (17251797) , English evangelical divine, was born at Barnes, Surrey, and educated at
Cambridge
 . He took orders in 1747, and was elected fellow of Queens' 'College,
Cambridge
 , in 1749. After holding. a curacy at'
Barton
 , Cambridgeshire, he became curate of St
Matthew
 , Friday Street, London, and of West Horsley, Surrey, in 175o, and then of Clapham in 1754. In the preceding year he was chaser lecturer of St Swithin's, Londofr Stone. He was
vicar
  of Huddersfield from 1754 to 1771, when he exchanged to the living of Yelling, Huntingdonshire. Besides being "a leader
Of the evangelical revival, he was well known as the author of The Corn pleat Duly of Man (London, 1763), a
work
  in which he intended to supplement the teaching embodied in the
anonymous
  Whole Duty of Man. His son, John Venn (1759-1813), was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society, and his grandson,
Henry
  Venn (1796-1873), was honorary secretary of that society from 1841 to 1873.


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