Beware, Young Novice—Henry Venn (1725 – 1797)
The son of a minister, Henry Venn became an evangelical after his marriage in 1750. Curate at Clapham from 1754, then vicar of Huddersfield from 1769, he moved to Yelling in Huntingdon, close enough to Cambridge to encourage young men such as Charles Simeon. Upon his arrival in Yelling, Venn began to seek out others who …