By the beginning of the nineteenth century the evangelical party in the Church of England had gained a firm footing at Cambridge; and several of the younger, and not a few of the older, members of the University were zealous supporters of it. Isaac Milner, who was President of Queens' from 1788 to 1820, succeeded in making his college one of its strongholds, and the influence of two Tutors of Magdalene, William Farish and Henry Jowett, brought that college into the same camp. Joseph Jowett, who for twenty years was a Tutor of Trinity Hall, and from 1782 until his death in 1813 Professor of Civil Law, was a zealous member of the party, as was also John Brown of Trinity, who in 1807 became an assistant Tutor of his college. Thus some of the key positions in the University, as they would nowadays be called, were in the hands of evangelicals; but the influence of these men, though considerable, was far less than that exercised by Charles Simeon, the leader of the party in Cambridge. The story of the fierce opposition and contemptuous ridicule which Simeon encountered during the early years of his incumbency of Holy Trinity Church has been too often told to bear repetition; and it is enough for the present purpose to mention that it was from him that the movement received the guidance and inspiration that it needed. His fervent piety supplied the inspiration and his sound judgment the guidance; and the nickname of Simeonites given to the Cambridge evangelicals was particularly appropriate.