Horatius Bonar was a Scottish churchman and poet is principally remembered as a prodigious hymnodist. Friends knew him as Horace Bonar.
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Horatius Bonar by Robert Adamson & David Octavius Hill 1808 - 1889. Of Kelso and Edinburgh; Free Church minister and poet
Robert Adamson & David Octavius Hill - Rev. Dr Horatius Bonar, 1808 - 1889. Of Kelso and Edinburgh; Free Church minister and poet
Paterson's Yard, Broughton, Edinburgh c. 1850
10 Palmerston Road, Edinburgh
The grave of Horatius Bonar, Canongate KirkyardWriters born in the 1800s 6
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Horatius Bonar was a Scottish churchman and poet is principally remembered as a prodigious hymnodist. Friends knew him as Horace Bonar. Licensed as a preacher, he did mission work in Leith for a time, and in November 1837 he settled at Kelso as minister of the new North Church founded in connection with Thomas Chalmers's scheme of church extension. He became exceedingly popular as a preacher, and was soon well known throughout Scotland.
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Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1808 to 1889 · aged 80
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