ty to atteiul. She persuaded tlie highest ladies of the court to listen to the preaching of the great evangelists, with an influence more or less powerful upon some, and a saving change in others. Among the former were the celebrated duchess of Marlborough and the duchess of Buckingham ; among the latter the duchess of the celebrated Chesterfield, lady Ann Frankland, and ladj^ Fanny Shirlej^, the theme of the admiring muse of Pope. She numbered among her friends some of the most venerated personages of English history : Watts, Doddridge, IJomaine, Venn, and the sainted Fletcher. When Mr. Wesley and his conference of preachers came to the conclusion that they had "leaned too much to Calvinism," lady Huntingdon, who had imbibed from Whiteticld the Calvinism by him imported from New England, received the impression, erroneous but invet- erate, that JNIr. Wesley denied the doctrine of justifica- tion by faith, and insisted upon the saving merit of works. Her relative, Rev. Walter Shirley, with the small remnant of Calvinistic preachers, called for recan- tation. A controversy arose, in which the virulent Toplady was chief champion of Calvinism, and love and truth, on the Arminian side, found their model in Fletch- er. Each party went on, in spite of the break, in spread- ing tlie essential truths of the Gospel maintained by both. Lady Huntingdon and Mr. Wesley never again met on earth ; but when, near the close of her own ca- reer, she read the dying ascription made by Mr. Wesley of his salvation to the blood of the Lamb, and when she learned from Wesley's fellow-traveller, Bradford, that such had ever been the tenor of his preaching, her soul melted, and, bursting into tears, she lamented that the unhapj)}' separation had ever taken place. Whitefield made no attempt to found a separate sect, but the count- ess chose to assume a sort of leadership among his fol- lowers, and to act herself as the founder of a sect, and those ;vho might properly have been called Whitefield- ian Jlcthodists came to be known as •' the countess of Huntingdon's Connection." On Whitefield's death in 1777 slie was appointed by will sole proprietrix of all his possessions in Georgia (U. S. A.), and a residt of this was the organization of a mission to America. But the countess had also at her own command a considera- ble income during the forty-four years of her widow- hood, and, as her own personal expenses were few, she established and supported, with the assistance of other opident persons, members of her own family, or other persons who were wrought upon as she was, a college at Trevecca, in Wales, for the education of ministers ; built numerous chapels, and assisted in the support of the ministers in them. She died in 1791, and the number of her chapels at the time of her death is stated to have been sixty-four, the principal of which was that at Bath, where she herself frequently attended. She cre- ated a trust for the management of her college and chapels after her death. The college was soon after re- moved to Cheshunt, Herts, where it still floiu-ishes ; but her chapels have, for the most part, become in doctrine and practice almost identical with those of the Congre- gational or Independent body, the chief distinction be- ing in the use of a portion at least of the " Book of Common Prayer," though, where not expressly directed in the trust-deed, that practice has in many instances been abandoned. In 1851 there were, according to the census, 109 chapels belonging to the countess of Hunt- ingdon's Connection in England and Wales. Sec Eng- lish Cijchpaedia ; Methodist Quarterly licrietr, January, 1858, p. 1G2; Stevens, Hist, of MetJiodism, i, 107; iJfe and Times of the Countess of'/Iuntinr/don (Lond. 1840, 2 vols. 8vo) ; JIudge, Lady I/untinf/don portrai/ed (New York, 1857, 1-Jmo) ; Skeats, Hist, of the Free Churches of Eiu/huid. p. ;JS8 S(j.
Huntingford, Geoecs Isaac, D.D., an English prelate, was born in Winchester in 17-18, and was edu- cated at Winchester School and at New College, Ox- ford. In 1772 he became master of Westminster School; in 1789, warden of Winchester School ; in 1802, bishop
of Gloucester; and in 1815 bishop of Hereford. He died in 1832. Besides several Greek and Latin class-books, he published Thoughts on the Trinity, with Charges, etc, (2d edit. Lond. 1832, 8vo) ; and a number of occasional sermons and charges. Sec ^^ nil, iniin's Marjaziuv, June and Dec. 1832 ; Darling, ( 'ni-lnji. /Uli/ioyrctphica, i, 1581 ; Allibone, Diclionurt/ of A tithors, i, 921.
Huntington, Joseph, D.D., a Congregational minister, was born in 1735, at Windham, Conn. He graduated at Yale College in 1762, and was ordained pastor of the First Church, Coventry, Conn., Jmie 29, 1763, where he died Dec. 25, 1794. In 1780 he was made a member of the board of overseers of Yale Col- lege. He jjublishcd A Plea Ixfore the Ecclesiastical Council at Stockbridrje in the Case of Mrs. Fiske. excom- miniirdtid Jnr iinirr)i'ni<i a profane Mini ( 177'.i) : — .1 « .4 (/-//■( .vx in Ins AiKiiiii/'ilist Brethren (17s:;) : 'l'hniii,hls on th, At.iiKinint of Christ {\.1^V):—Calriiiisiii i.njinjrid (post, 1796) ; and a few occasional sermons. — Spraguc, Annals, i, 602.
Huntington, Joshua, a Congregational minister, was born Jan. 31, 1786, at Norwich, Conn. He grailuated at Yale College in 1804, entered the ministry in Sept. 1806, and was ordained co- pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, IMay 18, 1808, where he labored until his death, Sept. 11,1819. He Avas one of the founders of the " American Educational Society," and I'resident of the " Boston Society for the Keligious and Jloral Instruction of the Poor" from its formation in 1816. — Sprague, . 1 ?;- nals, ii, 501.