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HENRY VENN (1725–1797)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 1008 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY VENN (1725–1797)  ,
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English evangelical divine, was born at Barnes, Surrey, and educated at Cambridge . He took orders in 1747, and was elected
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fellow of Queens' 'College, Cambridge, in 1749 . After holding. a curacy at' Barton, Cambridgeshire, he became curate of St Matthew, Friday Street,
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London, and of West Horsley, Surrey, in 175o, and then of Clapham in 1754 . In the preceding
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year he was chaser lecturer of St Swithin's, Londofr Stone . He was vicar of
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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
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work in which he intended to supplement the teaching embodied in the
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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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