John Dobell

DOBELL. John. b. 1757; d. May 1840. Dobell was described in JJ as ‘a port-gauger [a person who checked cargoes] under the Board of Excise at Poole, Dorset, and a person of some local note’ (p. 304). He published A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns for Private, Family, and Public Worship (1806). This was evidently very successful, for a Third Edition (no date, but before 1825, when it was printed in the USA) was entitled A New Selection of More than Eight Hundred Evangelical Hymns, from the best authors in England, Scotland, Ireland, America, &c. Including a great number of originals; for Public and Family Worship. It was ‘Alphabetically arranged in Three Parts’: I...

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