​VENN, HENRY (1725-1797), 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 1750, and then of Clapham in 1754. In the preceding year he was thd&n lecturer of St Swithin's, Londoft Stone. He was vicar of Huddersfield from 1759 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 Compkat Duly of Man (London, 1763), a work in which he intended to supplement the teaching embodied in the anony- mous Whole Duty of Man. His son, John Venn (1750-1813), 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.' .