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Cecil Frances Alexander (April 1818 – 12 October 1895) [1] was an Anglo-Irish hymnwriter and poet. Amongst other works, she wrote " All Things Bright and Beautiful ", " There is a green hill far away " and the Christmas carol " Once in Royal David's City ".
His wife, Cecil Frances Alexander, wrote some tracts in connection with the Oxford Movement. She is known as the author of many well-known hymns, including "Once in Royal David's City", "All Things Bright and Beautiful". They both lived in Milltown House, Strabane. The house is now used as a school, Strabane Grammar School.
Once in Royal David's City is a Christmas carol originally written as a poem by Cecil Frances Alexander. The carol was first published in 1848 in her hymnbook Hymns for Little Children. A year later, the English organist Henry Gauntlett discovered the poem and set it to music. [1]
The writer's husband, William Alexander, considered it among the best of those written by his wife, with later assessments agreeing on the matter, one early 20th century noting the fine poetic skill of the poet and proclaiming that "she surpassed all other writers of sacred song in meeting a growing demand for children’s hymns". [3]
Mrs Cecil Frances Alexander [1] Thomas Chisholm Anstey [2] Richard Bagot (bishop) [3] Edward Bellasis (lawyer) [4] Edward Bickersteth [5] Evangelical opponent of the Tractarians. Charles James Blomfield [6] Bishop called on to adjudicate between Tractarians and their opponents; John Rouse Bloxam [7] John William Bowden [8] Robert Brett [9]
The words are by Cecil Frances Alexander and were first published in her Hymns for Little Children of 1848. The hymn is commonly sung to the hymn tune All Things Bright And Beautiful, composed by William Henry Monk in 1887. Another popular tune is Royal Oak, adapted from a 17th-century English folk tune, "The 29th of May".
Cecil Frances Alexander lived in the old rectory in the late 19th century. Her contemporary, Agnes Jones, trained with Florence Nightingale and served as a nurse in the Crimean War. Agnes Jones was born in Cambridge, England. [2] Edward Maginn, a 19th-century bishop, served as a parish priest in
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