Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion
The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion is a small society of evangelical churches, founded in 1783 by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, as a result of the Evangelical Revival. For many years it was strongly associated with the Calvinist Methodist movement of George Whitefield.
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, c. 1770 (unidentified artist)
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon was an English Christian and religious leader who played a prominent part in the religious revival of the 18th century and the Methodist movement in England and Wales. She founded an evangelical branch in England and Sierra Leone, known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion.
Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
Trevecca College, Brecknockshire, depicted in 1824
Gravestone of Reverend William Furmage, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Huntingdonian Missionary to the Black Loyalists; he established Black school in Halifax
Selina, Countess of Huntingdon in old age