Bonar, Horatius (1808–1889), Free Church of Scotland minister and hymn writer, was born at Edinburgh on 19 December 1808. He was the sixth son of James Bonar, the second solicitor of excise at Edinburgh, and his wife, Marjory Maitland (d. 1854), the daughter of ...
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Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson ? National Portrait Gallery, London