I am aware of Legh Richmond (1772-1827) the evangelical author of The Dairyman's daughter but until today I had not realised that he has an interesting claim to fame in that at one of his first charges, St Mary's, Brading, on the Islof Wight, he is thought to have originated a now globally popular idea (where people still use hymnbooks that is). It is the idea of using boards with movable numbers to indicate hymn numbers during church services.
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