DAVID FENN was a son of the Rev.
Joseph Fenn; he was born at Cottayam in 1826. He graduated B.A. from Trinity
College, Cambridge, in double honours Senior Optime and second class Classics
in 1849. He was ordained deacon in 1849, and priest in 1850, by the Bishop of
London. He was Curate of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, from 1849 till 1852, when
he went to Madras. With Ragland and Meadows he founded the North Tinnevelly
mission. When on leave to Mauritius, in 1854, he founded the C.M.S. mission in
that island. In 1867 he was in charge for a year of the Tamil Cooly mission in
Ceylon. On his return to India he did evangelistic work in Madras till 1873,
when he became joint secretary of the Corresponding Committee. He did good
service on the committee for the revision of the Tamil Prayer Book, and was
nominated a Fellow of Madras University whilst this work was going on. He died
at Madras in 1878; his remains rest by the side of those of Henry Baker,
Junior, in the Cathedral burial ground; Mr. Fenn was a first-rate Tamil
Scholar
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