Daniel Turner

Daniel Turner (1710-98) was the Baptist minister at Abingdon, 1748-98. He was brother-in-law to James Fanch, also a hymn writer. He was a friend of Caleb Evans of Bristol and Robert Robinson of Cambridge and a correspondent of Anne Steele, moving within the broader wing of the Particular Baptists. He wrote poems and hymns throughout his long tenure at Abingdon, most of which were published in his Poems Devotional and Moral (1794). By the time he met Anne Steele, however, he had already published a volume of hymns when serving as minister at the Particular Baptist meeting in Reading, titled Divine Songs, Hymns, and Other Poems (1747). He was a friend and also wrote hymns.