Introduction
Born: December 20, 1839, Exeter, Devonshire, England.
Died: August 25, 1908, St. John’s Wood, London, England.
Buried: Hampstead Cemetery, Camden, London, England.
Born: December 20, 1839, Exeter, Devonshire, England.
Died: August 25, 1908, St. John’s Wood, London, England.
Buried: Hampstead Cemetery, Camden, London, England.
In 1854, Hurditch underwent a spiritual change which led him start religious work in villages in Devonshire, and afterwards to succeed Henry Hull as secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association, Stafford Street, London.
In 1865 he published The London Hymn Book for Prayer Meetings and Special Services (revised in 1880). In 1873, he published The Enlarged London Hymn Book, a Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Private Use. Of the smaller work more than half a million copies were sold; and of the enlarged book the eighty-sixth thousand was issued in 1881.