Benjamin Beddome 

Benjamin Beddome (1717-1795) was the son of John Beddome (see below). He later became a well known Baptist minister and hymnodist. After studying at Bristol Academy and in London, he was baptized at Goodman Fields in 1739 and admitted to the Baptist Board in 1740. He began supplying at Bourton-on-the-Water that same year and was ordained there in September 1743, where he remained until his death. He composed some 800 hymns in his lifetime, most of which were published posthumously in 1817 in Hymns Adapted to Public Worship. See Michael A. G. Haykin, “Benjamin Beddome (1717-1795),” in The British Particular Baptists, ed. Michael A. G. Haykin, 5 vols. (Springfield, MO: Particular Baptist Press, 1998-2019), 1:167-182; Roger Hayden, Continuity and Change: Evangelical Calvinism among Eighteenth-Century Baptist Ministers trained at Bristol Academy, 1690–1791 (London: Baptist Historical Society, 2006), 224.