John Newton

(1725-1807)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Newton, John, 1725-1807 DNB: Newton, John (1725-1807), slave trader and Church of England clergyman LBT ID: JoNewto1807 VIAF ID: 74650916 LOC ID: n50006007	B/BAP: 1725-07-24 DIED: 1807-12-21
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Evangelical clergyman who wrote the Olney Hymns (1779) with William Cowper; he was curate of Olney in Buckinghamshire from 1764.
REFERENCES TO John Newton: Kennedy, James, 1793?-1827, Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) First Conversation Found 1: ¶ 19 Fourth Conversation Found 1: ¶ 5 [William Bourne Oliver Peabody], “Moore’s Life of Byron” in North American Review 31 (July 1830) 167-99 Found 1: ¶ 25 “Lord Byron’s Theology” in The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature NS 4 (September 1830) 605-13 Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1: ¶ 43 [William Bourne Oliver Peabody], “Lord Byron's Conversations on Religion” in North American Review 36 (January 1833) 152-188 Found 1: ¶ 22 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter XXIII. 1840-52. Found 1: ¶ 14