Dorothy Gurney
Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney | |
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| Born | Dorothy Frances Blomfield October 4, 1858 Finsbury Circus, London, UK |
| Died | June 15, 1932 (aged 73) |
| Nationality (legal) | British |
| Occupation | hymn-writer |
| Notable work | "God's Garden" |
Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney (1858–1932)[1] was an English hymn-writer[2] and poet.[3] Gurney was the granddaughter of Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London from 1828 to 1856; niece to the architect Sir Arthur Blomfield[4] and Alfred Blomfield, Bishop of Colchester from 1882 to 1894;[5] and cousin of the geologist Francis Arthur Bather.[6] The daughter of Frederick Blomfield, Rector of St Andrew Undershaft in the City of London, she married Gerald Gurney in 1897. In 1904 her husband was ordained an Anglican priest,[7] but they both joined the Roman Catholic church in 1919.[8]
References
- ^ cyberhymnal
- ^ "Dorothy F. Gurney". hymnary.org. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ "Poems. - British Library". explore.bl.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ "Blomfield, Charles James (1786–1857), bishop of London". www.oxforddnb.com. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ Obituary- The Bishop Of Colchester The Times, Tuesday, 6 November 1894; p. 10; Issue 34414; col. C
- ^ BATHER, Francis Arthur’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 5 Aug 2017[permanent dead link]
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p603: London, Horace Cox, 1908
- ^ Vlieland, Jerome Nicholas (9 January 2013). "Jerome Nicholas Vlieland: Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney". Jerome Nicholas Vlieland. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
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