Person    | Male  Born 24/7/1725  Died 21/12/1807

Rev. John Newton

A slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist. Born Wapping. Began his ecclesiastical career at Olney in Buckinghamshire where he wrote the words to 'Amazing Grace' and published the hymn in a collection with William Cowper.  Rector of St Mary Woolnoth 1780 – 1807, where he delivered an anti-slavery sermon that inspired William Wilberforce. Died at home, Coleman Street Buildings.

 

 

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Rev. John Newton

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Gilt of Cain - Slave trade

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BBC Concert Orchestra

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Greensleeves Records

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