Bourne Hall Draper
Born: 1775, Cumnor (near Oxford), England.
Died: October 12, 1843, Southampton, England.
Pseudonym: B. H. D.
Draper’s family wanted him to become an Anglican priest, but could not afford to educate him. Instead, he joined the Clarendon Press in Oxford as a printer’s apprentice. He began attending the Baptist church around that time, and after his apprenticeship, was admitted to the Baptist Academy in Bristol, headed by John Ryland. Ordained in 1804, Draper became pastor of the Baptist church in Chipping-Norton, Oxfordshire. Later he moved to a pastorate in Southampton, where he remained the rest of his life. A number of his hymns appeared in the Baptist Magazine.
Hymns