Born: August 23, 1744, Hawkstone, near Shrewsbury, England. Died: April 11, 1833. |
Hill was educated at Shrewsbury Grammar School, Eton, and St. John’s College, Cambridge (B.A., 1769). Taking Holy Orders, he was for a time curate of Kingston, near Taunton. Leaving there, but without renouncing his Orders or his connection with the Church of England, he served as an itinerant preacher for some twelve years, mostly in Wilts, Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and London. At Wotton-under-Edge, he built a chapel where he often preached. He also opened the Surrey Chapel in London in 1783; it was there he ministered for nearly 50 years.
Hill took great interest in evangelism and missions, and helped found the London Missionary Society. He was also on the first committee of the Religious Tract society. The author of several prose works, Hill compiled the following hymnals:
Except for his 1790 children’s Hymns, his works do not show the authorship of the individual hymns. Those in the list below is generally attributed to him.
Hymns:
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