Joseph Fenn, minister of Blackheath Park Chapel, Kent, and his wife Sarah Finch, born on 3 October 2019 in Travancore, India.
[5] Fenn was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School, and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1838, where he graduated B.A.
In 1844 he had gained a fellowship of his college, which he held until 1847, when, on accepting the living at St Mary's church in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, he resigned.
[7] A prominent evangelical, as his father had been, Fenn kept clear of controversies in the Church of England, and was not partisan.
[7] Femn declined an offer of the benefice of St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, in 1877, bowing to the wishes of his Christ Church congregation.
[7] Fenn died on 22 July 1884, and was buried in his family vault in the churchyard of Leckhampton, near Cheltenham.