Classic Hymns and Their Stories
Puzzle 25 · Olney and Its Hymn Writers · Page 43 in print
John Newton
Manesty’s recommendation helped John Newton obtain his Liverpool tide-surveyor post.
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The words
Cardiphonia
Newton’s 1781 collection of religious letters.
Curacy
Newton’s clerical post at Olney from 1764.
John Newton
John Newton was born in London in 1725. His mother died when he was seven, and he went to sea with his father at the age of eleven.
John Thornton
Patron who offered Newton the London living.
Liverpool
The city where Newton served as tide surveyor before his Olney ministry.
Lord Dartmouth
Patron who helped Newton get the Olney curacy and built his vicarage.
Manesty
Liverpool patron who recommended Newton for the tide-surveyor post.
Mary Catlett
Newton’s devout friend, whom he married in 1750. Newton’s wife and an influence on his conversion.
Privy Council
Body before which Newton gave evidence on the slave trade.
Sierra Leone
West African coast where Newton was taken on a slave ship.
Slave Trade
The trade Newton left in 1754 and later spoke out against.
Surveyor
Newton’s post as surveyor of the tides at Liverpool. Newton’s job between sea life and ordination.
Thomas a Kempis
Author of Imitation of Christ, which Newton read before his conversion.
Wilberforce
William Wilberforce, Newton’s associate in the campaign against slavery.
Woolnoth
St Mary Woolnoth, the London church Newton served from 1780 to 1807.
Sources
- Dictionary of National Biography: Newton, John (1725-1807)Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Dictionary of National Biography)
- Parishes : Olney with WarringtonVictoria County History (British History Online)
- John NewtonHymnary.org
- John Newton: Biography and Further ReadingBrycchan Carey (academic abolition resource)