Author: Herbert, Daniel
Biography:
HERBERT, Daniel (1751-1833: findmypast.com)
The son of dissenters, Herbert was born on 9 Apr. 1751 and died on 29 Aug. 1833 at Sudbury, Suffolk. His parents, Ann and Daniel Herbert, had him privately baptised on 10 Nov. 1751 and registered the event as an Independent (Congregationalist) baptism. Nothing is known of his education. He was a respectable businessman who manufactured bunting. He married Elizabeth Lambert at St. Peter, Sudbury, on 26 Dec. 1780; the couple went on to have ten children, their baptisms also registered as Independent. No extant copy has been located of the first edition of his Calvinistic “Hymns and Poems” (apparently 1801) which were issued in varying forms but are usually counted as three separate volumes 1801, 1819, and 1827, with occasional reprintings. The London publishers continued to reprint them as late as 1864. Herbert is sometimes identified as a congregational minister who preached at the Great Meeting House on Friar Street, Sudbury, but a local newspaper report of his death indicates that he was—rather, or also--a lay preacher who for many years held public gatherings for worship on Sunday evenings in his own home, on Plough Lane. He was buried at All Saints, Sudbury, on 5 Sept. 1833. His wife predeceased him. (findmypast.com 2 May 2022; ancestry.com 2 May 2022; Gospel Herald 51 [1883] 285-6; hymnary.org 2 May 2022; Essex Herald 10 Sept. 1833)
Other Names:
- D. Herbert