Horatius Bonar
British minister and poet
Died when: 80 years 163 days (965 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Horatius Bonar /h?'re???s 'b?n???r, 'b?n?r/ (19 December 1808 – 31 July 1889), a contemporary and acquaintance of Robert Murray M'cheyne was a Scottish churchman and poet.
He 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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