Sarah Bache (1771? – 23 July 1844), was an English hymn writer. She was born at
Bromsgrove, but brought up at
Worcester
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by relatives named Laugher, members of the Rev.
Thomas Belsham
Thomas Belsham (26 April 175011 November 1829) was an English Unitarian minister
Life
Belsham was born in Bedford, England, and was the elder brother of William Belsham, the English political writer and historian. He was educated at the disse ...
's congregation. Rev. Timothy Laugher, of Hackney (d. 1769), was her uncle, and she was a cousin of Joshua Tilt Bache.
She moved to
Birmingham
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(before 1791, for she had attended the ministry of
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley (; 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist. He published over 150 works, and conducted exp ...
) and for many years kept the
Islington School, in conjunction with a half-sister, Miss Penn. Another half-sister, Anna Penn, married the Rev.
Lant Carpenter
Lant Carpenter, Dr. (2 September 1780 – 5 or 6 April 1840) was an English educator and Christian Unitarianism, Unitarian Minister (Christianity), minister.
Early life
Lant Carpenter was born in Kidderminster, the third son of George Carpenter ...
, LL.D. She was the author of the hymn ''See how he loved'', which first appeared in the Exeter collection in 1812, compiled by Dr. Carpenter. She died at Birmingham on 23 July 1844, at. 74.
See also
;English women hymnwriters (18th to 19th-century)
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Eliza Sibbald Alderson
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Augusta Amherst Austen
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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
References
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English hymnwriters
1770s births
1844 deaths
People from Bromsgrove
British women hymnwriters