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Leonard Withington

Short Name: Leonard Withington
Full Name: Withington, Leonard, 1789-1885
Birth Year: 1789
Death Year: 1885

Withington, Leonard, D.D., was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1789, and graduated at Yale 1814. He was pastor of the First Congregational Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts, from 1816, and died there, April 22, 1885. His hymn, "O Saviour of a world undone" (Passiontide), appeared in E. Nason's Congregational Hymn Book 1857. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)


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