 In 1739, Lady Huntington joined the first Methodist society in Fetter Lane, London.Some time after the death of her husband in 1746, she threw in her lot with John Wesley and George Whitefield in the work of the great revival.Whitefield became her personal chaplain, and, with his assistance, following problems put in her path by the Anglican clergy from whom she had preferred not to separate, she founded the "Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion", a Calvinistic movement within the Methodist church.