Annals of a Clerical Family
Being Some Account of the Family and Descendants of William Venn, Vicar of Otterton, Devon, 1600–1621

This 1904 memoir of the Venn family, which produced clergymen and scholars for centuries, was written by the Cambridge historian.

John Venn (Author)

9781108044929, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 March 2012

366 pages, 28 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg

John Venn (1834–1923), a leading British logician, moral scientist and historian of Cambridge, came from a noted family of clerics, although he resigned from the clergy as his philosophical studies led him away from Anglican orthodoxy. This family memoir, published in 1904, covers the careers of three centuries of Venn clergy, together with an outline of the family origins and pedigrees. The family came from Devon, where William Venn was ordained in 1595, and two of his sons followed him. Richard Venn was displaced and jailed during the Commonwealth. The author's father, John, was the founder of an evangelical sect at Clapham (where his father Henry had also been curate), and of the Church Missionary Society, an organisation in which the author's brother, Henry, played a leading role. The study provides a microcosmic history of the Anglican Church from the Reformation to the end of the nineteenth century.

Preface
1. Venn families: origin and early history
2. Venns of Broadhembury
3. William Venn, Vicar of Otterton
4. Richard Venn, Vicar of Otterton
5. Dennis Venn, Rector of Holbeton
6. Richard Venn, Rector of St. Antholin's, London
7. Henry Venn, Vicar of Huddersfield and Yelling
8. John Venn, Rector of Clapham
9. Henry Venn, of Church Missionary Society
10. John Venn of Hereford
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]