Annals of a Clerical Family by John Venn - 9781108044929

Annals of a Clerical FamilyBeing Some Account of the Family and Descendants of William Venn, Vicar of Otterton, Devon, 16001621\nAuthor(s): John Venn\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108044929, 978-1108044929\nSynopsis\nJohn Venn [tel], 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 .