John Newton - A brief biography by Michelle Buckman (Part 2)

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John Newton - A brief biography by Michelle Buckman (Part 2)

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John Newton (1725 - 1807) was an English Anglican clergyman and abolitionist After coming to Christ, Newton renounced this trade and became a prominent supporter of abolitionism. Now an evangelical, he was ordained as a Church of England clergyman and served in the parish at Olney in Buckinghamshire for two decades. Newton lived to see the British Empire’s abolition of the African slave trade in 1807, just months before his death. John Newton is well known for the hymns he penned, including "Amazing Grace" and "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken".