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- Newton would go on to testify against slavery at parliamentary hearings and even spoke on the issue at a meeting of the Privy Council. He continued to preach until his death, though in the last years of his life he went blind and became increasingly feeble. He died nine months after Parliament abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.
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In the last years of his life, John Newton went blind and experienced declining health. He also began to lose his memory. He continued to preach until he died on December 21, 1807. This was nine months after Parliament abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.
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Newton's wife Mary Catlett died in 1790, after which he published Letters to a Wife (1793), in which he expressed his grief. Plagued by ill health and failing eyesight, Newton died on 21 December 1807 in London.
May 15, 2020 · Known For: Anglican clergyman of the Church of England, hymn-writer, and former slave trader turned abolitionist who penned “Amazing Grace,” one of the most beloved and enduring hymns of the Christian church. Born: July 24, 1725 in Wapping, London, UK.
Oct 19, 2023 · John Newton was born on July 24, 1725, to John and Elizabeth. His mother was devout, his father regularly absent at sea. His mother died before his seventh birthday; his father remarried quickly.
Jan 30, 2001 · John and Mary had no children of their own, but adopted two nieces. When Mary died 17 years before John, Newton lived with the family of one of these nieces and was cared for by her as well as by any daughter. He died December 21, 1807 at the age of 82. A month before he died he expressed his settled faith:
John Newton died in 1807, a few months after the Act abolishing the slave trade throughout the British Empire had been passed. Polly and John were originally buried in the crypt of his London church, St Mary, Woolnoth.
He lived to see the British slave trade outlawed—just months before his death in 1807. Newton's sense that God's boundless grace had saved him from a life of metaphoric blindness pervades the diary.
