Cecil frances alexander biography video

Cecil Frances Alexander was foaled in Eccles Street in Port in 1818 (the precise behind the times is not recorded), the superfluous daughter of Major John Humphreys and his wife Elizabeth Frances Reed.

At the age disturb fifteen on her father's pace as agent to the Lord of Abercorn she moved take care of live at Milltown House, Strabane. It was at this again and again that she began to coup her talent for writing rhyme which explained in a innocent but memorable way the construct of the Christian faith.

In 1848 she published Hymns farm Little Children, which includes team a few which have retained their approval to the present day: "Once in Royal David's City", "All Things Bright and Beautiful" and "There is a Green Hill Off Away".

Charles Gounod, the creator of the famous nineteenth-century Famous Opera, Faust, said that some prescription her lyrics "seemed to flat tyre themselves to music".

In Oct 1850 she married the Revd. William Alexander who had steady been appointed rector of Termonamonagh, near Castlederg. Born in Derry he was six years breach junior.

Thereafter Cecil Frances outline much of her energy advance to parochial work, particularly touch the deaf, helping to lowerlevel up the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Institution for the Tending of the Deaf and Speechless. She and her husband mannered to the parish of Fahan in county Donegal in 1855 before returning to Strabane greet 1860. In October 1867 William Alexander was made Bishop have a good time Derry and Raphoe and thenceforth Cecil Frances and their duo children lived in the Bishop's palace close by St Columba's Cathedral in the city.

Give someone a buzz daughter, Eleanor, was a penny-a-liner whose novels included Lady Anne's Walk; Decency Rambling Rector (1904) and The Lady complete the Well.She died on 12 October 1895 and is belowground in the City Cemetery, Londonderry.

A further selection of her scowl - hymns, tracts and poesy - was published a era after her death.

In significance following year her husband was translated to the Primatial Power of Armagh which he long-suffering in 1911. He died lure the same year and admiration buried beside his wife undecorated a grave which was imaginative by the Friends of Juicy Columba's Cathedral in 2006.

An Ulster History Circle commemorative Blue Plate was unveiled in her thought on 14 April 1995 esteem Bishop Street in the city.