PeopleBakewell, John, 1721-1819

Bakewell, John, b. at Brailsford, Derbyshire, 1721. At about the age of eighteen his mind was turned towards religious truths by reading Boston's Fourfold State. From that date he became an ardent evangelist, and in 1744 (the year of the first Methodist Conference) he begun to preach. Kemoving to London some short time after, he became acquainted with the Wesleys, M. Madan, A. M. Toplady, J. Fletcher, and other earnest evangelical men. After conducting for some years the Greenwich Royal Park Academy, he resigned in favour of his son-in-law, Dr. James Egau, and employed much of his time in preaching at various places for the Wesleyans. He d. at Lewisham, near Greenwich, March 18, 1819, nged 98, and was buried in the Wesleyan burying ground connected with the City Road Chapel, London. Mr. Bakewell was the author of a few hymns, the best known being, " Hail Thou once despised Jesus," the abbreviations of the same, "Paschal Lamb, by God appointed," and “Jesns, hail, enthroned in glory." A short memoir of him was pub. by Mr. Stelfox, Belfast, 1864.

- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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• Hymn Writers of the Church

Hymn Texts by John Bakewell	As
Hail, thou once despised Jesus (462)	John Bakewell
Heil dir, Jesu, einst verachtet	John Bakewell
Heil dir, Jesu, einst verachtet, heil dir Jesu	John Bakewell
Jesus, hail, enthroned in glory (117)	John Bakewell
Paschal Lamb, by God appointed (19)	John Bakewell
Worship honor power and blessing (5)	John Bakewell

• Hymn Writers of the Church