The Rev. John Newton's hymn "Amazing Grace" has become a national hymn, uniting people of all walks of life and reflecting ...

My name is John Newton and I want to tell you my story ... I had never shown any to them. I wrote a letter to my father asking for help and he immediately sent a ship, called the Greyhound ...

John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in ... It was there that he wrote the self-reflecting hymn. An important feature of “Amazing Grace” is that it is embraced ...

Clergyman John Newton, a former slave ship captain, wrote the hymn Amazing Grace, first published in 1779. In 1780 he was appointed Rector of the Lord Mayor’s Church in London and many came to ...

The "Welcome to Olney" sign proudly proclaims it as the "Home of Amazing Grace". The hymn was written in the town by curate - and former slave ship captain - the Reverend John Newton, for his ...

The Rev John Newton wrote it in 1773 ... Buckinghamshire, he wrote Amazing Grace in the weeks leading up to his New Year's Day service on 1 January 1773. Hull City Council said the hymn had ...

The results showed those who regularly had a go at Amazing Grace, written by clergyman and poet John Newton in 1772, saw the ...

The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "AMAZING GRACE") ROBESON: (Singing) I see. BALABAN: But he digresses. Back to John Newton ... WALVIN: What Newton wrote in the 1770s is still what we sing today.