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- Newton, 1725-1807
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1725-08-04
Death Date
- 1807-12-21
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Church of England
Birth Place
- Wapping (London, England)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
Surveyor
(trot) Clergy
(trot) Hymn writers
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Sources
- found: His Messiah. Fifty expository discourses, on the series of scriptural passages ... 1786.
- found: MdU/G-K files(usage: Newton)
- found: His Letters to a wife, 1794:t.p. (John Newton, author of Cardiphonia, Omicron's letters, sermons)
- found: DNB(Newton, John; on sea with father and later alone, 1736-54; surveyor of the tides, Liverpool, 1755-60; pastor at Warwick, Olney, and London, England; b. July 24, 1725; d. 21 Dec. 1807)
- found: Shepherd, Richard Herne. A sermon, &c, 1820?:p. 35 (Omicron) p. 32 (Appendix: A letter of the late Rev. John Newton, Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, dated October 2, 1795, inserted in the Evangelical Magazine for 1795, volume III, page 456, signed Omicron)
- found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed August 23, 2018:Newton, John (born at Wapping, London; slave trader and Church of England clergyman; collaborated with William Cowper to publish Olney Hymns in 1779; he was well known as a spiritual writer in the Evangelical movement; served at St. Mary Woolnoth)
- found: Wikipedia, viewed August 23, 2018:John Newton (Born 4 August [O.S. 24 July] 1725; died in London, England; served as sailor in the Royal Navy, then later as a slave ship captain; became an ally of William Wilberforce in the campaign to abolish the African slave trade) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton
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Change Notes
- 1980-03-25: new
- 2023-01-17: revised
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