biography
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Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of
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née Shirley
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| lived:
| (1707–91)
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| biography:
| Methodist leader, born in Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, C England, UK. In 1728 she married the Earl of Huntingdon, but was widowed in 1746. Joining the Methodists in 1739, she made Whitefield her chaplain, and assumed a leadership among his followers, who became known as ‘the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.’ She built a training school for ministers, and many chapels. |
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