Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar
Horatius Bonar from Disruption Worthies[1]
Personal details
Born(1808-12-19)19 December 1808
Died31 July 1889(1889-07-31) (aged 80)
Occupationchurchman, poet
Horatius Bonar from memorial[2]
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 Kirkyard

Horatius Bonar /həˈreɪʃəs ˈbɒnˌɑːr, ˈbɒnər/ (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.[3]

  1. ^ Wylie 1881.
  2. ^ Bonar 1889.
  3. ^ Bayne 1901.