Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 26, 1773, Not­ting­ham, Not­ting­hams­hire, Eng­land.

Died: June 24, 1822, Lei­ces­ter, Eng­land.

A Bap­tist layman, Bur­ton wrote a num­ber of hymns, and helped com­pile the Nottingham Sun­day School Un­ion Hymn Book in 1810; this hymn­al went through 20 edi­tions over the next half cen­tu­ry. His other works in­clude:

• Youth’s Monitor in Verse, in a Series of Lit­tle Tales, Em­blems, Po­ems and Songs, 1802

Sources

Hymns

1. Ho­ly Bi­ble, Book Divine