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Matilda Betham-Edwards
1836 - 1919 Person Name: M. Betham Edwards Author of "God make my life a little light" in The Home and School Hymnal Born: March 4, 1836, Westerfield (near Ipswich), England.
Died: January 4, 1919, Hastings, Sussex, England.
[Matilda Betham Edwards (1836-1919)]
Daughter of Edward Edwards, and cousin of Egyptologist Amelia B. Edwards, Matilda was educated in Ipswich and Peckham, and traveled extensively, especially in Germany and France. Her works include:
The White House by the Sea, 1857
Dr. Jacob, 1864
Kitty, 1869
Poems, 1885
Lord of the Harvest, 1899
--www.hymntime.com/tch
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Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham (Betham-Edwards), daughter of Edward Edwards, and cousin of Amelia B. Edwards, the Egyptologist, was born at Westerfield, near Ipswich, March 4, 1836. Miss Edwards is well known as the author of Kitty, The Sylvesters, and other stories. Her Poems were published in 1885. Her hymn for Children's Services, "God make my life a little light," in the Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887, first appeared in Good Words, 1873, p. 393, together with another hymn for children, "The little birds now seek their rest" (Evening). Several of her religious pieces have passed into devotional and other works.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Matilda Betham-Edwards
J. Montgomerie Bell
1837 - 1910 Person Name: J. M. Bell Composer of "RUTHWELL" in The Church Hymnary John Montgomerie Bell was a hymnwriter and botanist born on May 28, 1837. He died on June 8, 1910 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
NN, Hymnary. Source: http://composers-classical-music.com/b/BellJohnMontgomerie.htmv
J. Montgomerie Bell
