Amos Sutton British Writer
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| First Name |
Amos
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| Last Name |
Sutton
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1801
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| Birthplace |
Sevenoaks
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| Died |
17th August, 1854
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| Place of Death |
Cuttack, Odisha
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Writer
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Amos Sutton (1802 in Sevenoaks in Kent – 17 August 1854 in Cuttack, Odisha) was an English General Baptist missionary to Odisha, India, and hymn writer. He published the first English grammar of the Odia language (1831), a History (1839), and Geography (1840), then the first dictionary of Odia (1841–43), as well as a translation of the Bible (1842–45). He also composed a hymn to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne": "Hail, sweetest, dearest tie, that binds" and wrote a History of the mission to Orissa: the site of the temple of Juggernaut (1835).
