John Fenn

John Fenn was a hosier at 78 Cornhill, London. He may have been the father of Joseph Fenn [Finn], who became a missionary to India for the Church Missionary Society. In 1799 Fenn took on a new partner in his business, Joseph Wickenden. Wickenden joined James Dore’s congregation at Maze Pond in August 1799, having been in business previously in Portsmouth and a member of the Baptist church there.  Both Fenn and Wickenden were supporters of the BMS, subscribing £2.2 each in 1800-1801 and 1804-1805. Wickenden became a deacon at Maze Pond in 1800, and also served as an associate member of the Particular Baptist Fund in 1804-1805. See Universal British Directory, 2.142; BMS Periodical Accounts, 2:204, and 3:132, 137; Maze Pond Church Book, vol. 2 (MS., Angus Library, Regent’s Park College, Oxford), ff. 20,184, 189, and 194; Theo F. Valentine, Concern for the Ministry: The Story of the Particular Baptist Fund 1717–1967 (Teddington: Particular Baptist Fund, 1967) , 48.