* Henry Venn ( 1725 – 97 ), founder of the group, father of John Venn and great-grandfather of John Venn ( originator of the Venn diagram )

** John Venn ( 1750-1813 ), one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society, son of Henry Venn

*** Henry Venn ( Church Missionary Society ) the younger, ( 1796-1873 ), secretary of the Church Missionary Society, grandson of Henry Venn

**** John Venn ( 1834 – 1923 ), British logician and the inventor of Venn diagrams, son of Henry Venn the younger

"; Henry Venn, secretary of the Church Missionary Society, sets out ideal of self-governing, self-supporting and self-propagating churches ; Hudson Taylor arrives in China

Henry Venn who, at the time of John's birth, was the rector of the parish of Drypool near Hull.

Henry Venn, a fellow of Queens ', was from a family of distinction.

Henry Venn was secretary to this Society from 1841.

Influenced by the indigenous church mission theories of Anglican Henry Venn ( 1796 – 1873 ) and American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions secretary Rufus Anderson ( 1796 – 1880 ), from the beginning of the global expansion of the Church of the Nazarene ( including its antecedent groups ), there was a commitment to the development of indigenous churches and districts within the framework of a unitary global denomination under the authority of the Manual.

John and Charles Wesley, George Whitefield, Henry Venn, Thomas Scott, and Thomas Adam all express their deep obligation to the author.

Henry Venn.

Henry Venn ( 1725 in Barnes, Surrey, England-1797 ), was an English evangelical minister and one of the founders of the Clapham Sect, a small but highly influential evangelical group within the Anglican Church.

His grandson, also named Henry Venn ( 10 February 1796-13 January 1873 ), was honorary secretary of that society from 1841 to 1873.

The three principles of self-governance, self-support ( i. e., financial independence from foreigners ) and self-propagation ( i. e., indigenous missionary work ) were first articulated by Henry Venn, General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841 – 73, and Rufus Anderson, foreign secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

This is the famous " three-self " formula formulated by Henry Venn of the London Church Missionary Society in the 19th century.

Following his father's death, Henry bought another house in town and also a house in Clapham Common, to the south of London.

' At Antwerp and the Dardanelles ' by Reverend Henry Clapham Foster, chaplain to R. N. D.

Some were members of the Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers, including Lord Teignmouth and Henry Thornton, the banker and abolitionist.

In his " Opening Address to a Conference at Mont Pelerin " Hayek mentioned " two men with whom I had most fully discussed the plan for this meeting both have not lived to see its realisation ": Henry Simons ( who trained Milton Friedman, a future president of the society, at the University of Chicago ) and Sir John Clapham, a senior official of the Bank of England who from 1940 – 6 was the president of the British Royal Society.

Henry Thornton was one of the founders of the Clapham Sect of evangelical reformers and a foremost campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade.

Henry Thornton was buried at St Paul's Church, Rectory Grove, Clapham, where a commemorative plaque records the fact, with an additional reference to the family vault nearby.

He also became a member of the Clapham Sect of evangelical Christian reformers, together with Wilberforce, Henry Thornton and Edward Eliot, and edited their magazine, the Christian Observer, from 1802 to 1816.

In that year he progressed to Henry Thornton Grammar School, Clapham, where he developed his love of music, playing violin and bassoon in the school orchestra and singing solo baritone in school concerts and stage events.

He was a pupil at Henry Thornton School, Clapham, from 1926 until 1931 and composed the original school song.

We must also remember those who reacted against the dream as a kind of myth -- among them Melville, Hawthorne, and Henry James the elder, all of them out of a Christian background.

Charles was not as valued as his physically stronger, elder brother, Henry, Prince of Wales, whom Charles personally adored and attempted to emulate.

* John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough ( b. 1926 ), elder son of the 10th Duke

He had an elder brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, and a younger sister, Rosalie Poe.

His elder brother Henry, who had been in ill health in part due to problems with alcoholism, died on August 1, 1831.

He had two elder brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer ( 1799 – 1877 ) and Henry ( 1801 – 1872 ), later Lord Dalling and Bulwer.

Henry I, the fourth son of William I the Conqueror, succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100.

Henry the elder had three sons: Edward, Henry and Daniel.

Additionally, if the elder Emma was also an illegitimate child of Henry I, this would make Guy and his wife Emma first cousins, something that casts more doubt on the claim.

John's elder brothers William, Henry and Geoffrey died young ; by the time Richard I became king in 1189, John was a potential heir to the throne.

In 1173 John's elder brothers, backed by Eleanor, rose in revolt against Henry in the short-lived rebellion of 1173 to 1174.

After Richard's death on 6 April 1199 there were two potential claimants to the Angevin throne: John, whose claim rested on being the sole surviving son of Henry II, and young Arthur of Brittany, who held a claim as the son of Geoffrey, John's elder brother.

With Norman law favouring John as the only surviving son of Henry II and Angevin law favouring Arthur as the heir of Henry's elder son, the matter rapidly became an open conflict.

These notes obtained by Henry Vane the Younger written in the King's Privy Council by the elder Vane, were then confirmed by independent testimony.

The elder Beatrice, in order to protect her children's inheritance, married Godfrey the Bearded, a cousin who had been Duke of Upper Lorraine before rebelling against the Emperor Henry III.

Otto's elder brother, Henry, was on a crusade at the time, and so the choice fell to Otto.

His elder brother Henry was crowned king of England during his father's lifetime.

Henry seized power in England following the death of his elder brother William Rufus.

Stephen's accession to the throne still needed to be ratified by the Pope, however, and Henry of Blois appears to have been responsible for ensuring that testimonials of support were sent both from Stephen's elder brother Theobald and from the French king Louis VI, to whom Stephen represented a useful balance to Angevin power in the north of France.

Henry VIII's first marriage had its origins in 1502 when his elder brother, Arthur, died.

He and his elder brother Henry were invited to play for the South Wales Club which had arranged a series of matches in London and Sussex, though Grace wondered humorously how they were qualified to represent South Wales.

In the autumn of 1877, the family moved back to Gloucestershire where they lived with Grace's elder brother Henry, who was a general practitioner.

The alliance will never happen because Henry's elder heir, Henry the Young King, gets jealous over the castles which the elder Henry promises to the couple and stages a rebellion which will take the elder Henry two years to put down.