William Venn (1568/1569-1621) was the youngest son of John Venn, born in Broadhembury, Devon, England. He matriculated at Oxford, and settled at Otterhamm about

Excerpt from Annals of a Clerical Family: Being Some Account of the Family and Descendants of William Venn, Vicar of Otterton, Devon, 1600-1621 The recovery of

Originally published in 1940, this book assesses the contributions made by Charles Simeon to the Evangelical Revival in Cambridge in the eighteenth century.