1839–1908

Introduction

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Born: De­cem­ber 20, 1839, Exe­ter, De­von­shire, Eng­land.

Died: Au­gust 25, 1908, St. John’s Wood, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Buried: Hamp­stead Ce­me­te­ry, Cam­den, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Biography

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.

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