Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has a 1813 edition of "An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of John Newton" by John Newton

Added at 05:57 on 24 July 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1813 edition of "An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of John Newton" - the autobiography of John Newton, born #OnThisDay 24 July 1725. This was originally published anonymously under the signatures of Omicron and Vigil in 1764 with a Preface by Haweis. He wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace" having been a captain of slave ships who later became a prominent abolitionist

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