John Eagleton

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Life

Born: 1785

Died: 1832

Biography

John Eagleton was an English clergyman, and the composer of one book of hymn tunes, Sacred Harmony.

Lightwood notes that Eagleton was born in CoventryLink to the English Wikipedia article, attended the Sunday School there founded by George BurderLink to the English Wikipedia article, and became a Wesleyan local preacher, before succeeding his father as pastor of a meeting-house near Coventry at the age of 21. He subsequently held posts at a Congregational Church in Vicar Lane (also Coventry), in Birmingham, and at the Ramsden Street Congregational Chapel in HuddersfieldLink to the English Wikipedia article.

Eagleton's book Sacred Harmony contains 27 hymn tunes, setting texts from collections by Isaac Watts, George Burder and John Wesley: the book itself is undated, but Lightwood gives a publication date of 1816.

View the Wikipedia article on John Eagleton.

List of choral works

 
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Publications

References

  • p69, J. T. Lightwood, The Music of the Methodist Hymn-Book, London: Epworth Press (1935)

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