Eliza Sibbald Alderson (16 August 1818 – 18 March 1889) was an English poet and hymn writer.
Eliza Sibbald Dykes, sister of the famous Rev.
J. B. Dykes
John Bacchus Dykes (10 March 1823 – 22 January 1876) was an English clergyman and hymnwriter.
Biography
John Bacchus Dykes was born in Kingston upon Hull, Hull, England, the fifth child and third son of William Hey Dykes, a ship builde ...
, was born at
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-ea ...
, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 1850 she was married to Rev. Mr. Alderson, chaplain to the West Riding House of Correction,
Wakefield
Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, ...
, 1833 to 1876. Though she wrote many hymns, only 12 have been published. She died in 1889 and was buried at
Kirkthorpe.
See also
;English women hymnwriters (18th to 19th-century)
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Augusta Amherst Austen
Augusta Amherst Austen (2 August 1827 – 5 August 1877) was a British organist and composer, chiefly of hymns.
Austen was born in London, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She was a church organist for most of her active career, from ...
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Sarah Bache
Sarah Bache (1771? – 23 July 1844), was an English hymn writer. She was born at Bromsgrove, but brought up at Worcester by relatives named Laugher, members of the Rev. Thomas Belsham's congregation. Rev. Timothy Laugher, of Hackney (d. 1769) ...
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Charlotte Alington Barnard
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Sarah Doudney
Sarah Doudney (15 January 1841, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire – 8 December 1926, Oxford)Charlotte Mitchell"Doudney, Sarah (1841–1926)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2005, ret ...
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Charlotte Elliott
Charlotte Elliott (18 March 1789 – 22 September 1871) was an English poet, hymn writer, and editor. She is best known by two hymns, "Just As I Am" and "Thy will be done".
Elliott edited ''Christian Remembrancer Pocket Book'' (1834–59) and ...
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Ada R. Habershon
Ada Ruth Habershon (8 January 1861-1918) was an English Christian hymnist, best known for her 1907 gospel song "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" for which the tune was composed by Charles H. Gabriel.
Biography
Ada R. Habershon was born in Maryle ...
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Katherine Hankey
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Frances Ridley Havergal
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Maria Grace Saffery
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Anne Steele
Anne Steele (pen name, Theodosia; 171711 November 1778) was an English Baptist hymn writer and essayist. For a full century after her death, she filled a larger place in United States and British hymnals than any other woman.
At an early age, Ste ...
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Emily Taylor
Emily Taylor (1795 – 11 March 1872) was an English schoolmistress, poet, children's author, and hymnist. She wrote numerous tales for children, chiefly historical, along with books of instruction and some descriptive natural history.
Early l ...
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Emily H. Woodmansee
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1818 births
1889 deaths
Christian hymnwriters
English hymnwriters
19th-century English poets
British women hymnwriters
19th-century English women writers
Writers from Kingston upon Hull