BREWER, JEHOIADA (1752? - 1817), Independent minister and hymn-writer
Date of birth: 1752?
Date of death: 1817
Gender: Male
Occupation: Independent minister and hymn-writer
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Music; Poetry; Religion
Author: Richard Griffith Owen
Born about 1752 at Newport, Monmouth. He was induced by a minister of lady Huntingdon's connexion to go to her college at Trevecka, and for that reason was debarred from Anglican orders. He started to preach around Bath, and was also very popular in Monmouthshire. He became successively minister at Rodborough (Gloucestershire) and Sheffield (Queen Street), 1783-95. In 1795 he was appointed minister of Carr's Lane chapel, Birmingham, in succession to Dr. Edward Williams of Rotherham; but in 1802 accompanied a secession thence to Livery Street. He died 24 August 1817 while a large new chapel in Steelhouse Lane was being built for him. Some of his sermons were published, and several of his hymns, e.g. ' Hiding Place ' and ' Star of Bethlehem ' (translated into Welsh), became very popular.
Author
- Reverend Richard Griffith Owen, (1890 - 1973)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Geirlyfr Bywgraffiadol o Enwogion Cymru (1870), 74
- Josiah Thomas Jones, Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru (Aberdâr 1867-70), i, 42
- Miall, Congregationalism in Yorkshire a chapter of modern church history (1868)
- James, The History of Protestant Nonconformity in Birmingham (1850)
- Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, i, 333 seqq., viii, 165
Sources
- Wikipedia Article: Jehoiada Brewer
Further Reading
Published date: 1959
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