Richard Burnham

Richard Burnham (1749-1810) was a Particular Baptist minister and hymnodist. He was ordained in 1778 and served at Staines, Middlesex, then at Green Walk, near Blackfriars, London, and then at Gate Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and finally in Grafton Street, Westminster, after 1795. His hymns are staunchly (High) Calvinistic, including New Hymns on Divers Subjects (1780), and enlarged into Hymns Particularly designed for the Use of the Congregation at Grafton Street, Soho (1803), containing 452 hymns. See his spiritual autobiography, The Triumphs of Free Grace (1787), and an elegy on Andrew Gifford.