William Tennent

William Tennent (1673 – May 6, 1746) was an early Scottish American Presbyterian minister and educator in British North America.

In 1726 he was called to a pastorate at the Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church in present-day Warminster, where he stayed for the remainder of his life.

[2] The name Log College had a negative connotation at the time, as it was a derisive nickname attached to the school by ministers educated in Europe.

They chided Tennent for trying to educate poor farm boys considered by some to be unsuitable for the ministry.

It indicates that by the time he died he was still a humble servant of God, leaving what little he had to his wife Catherine (née Kennedy) Tennent.