Job Hupton

HUPTON, Job. b. near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, March 1762; d. Claxton, Norfolk, 19 October 1849. His early life as a blacksmith followed the evangelical pattern of wickedness followed by conversion, after which he attached himself to one of the Countess of Huntingdon*’s chapels at Walsall. He became one of the Countess of Huntingdon’s preachers, and was admitted to her college at Trevecca. He preached for her Connexion for some nine years, but in 1794 he left to join the Baptists, becoming a pastor at Claxton, Norfolk. His prose writings were collected as The Truth as it is in Jesus (Beccles, Norfolk, 1843); his hymns are found in a collection, Hymns and Spiritual Poems, published by...