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        4. She was a hymn writer and poetess born in Redcross, County Wicklow, Ireland, who started to write poetry as a child and by the s she was known as a hymn.
        5. Alexander, Cecil Frances (–95), hymn-writer, known in her family as Fanny, was born in Eccles Street, Dublin, second daughter (and third among seven.

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          Cecil Frances Alexander (1818 - 1895):
          Hymn writer and poet

          Cecil Frances Alexander

          Cecil Frances Alexander was born in Eccles Street in Dublin in 1818 (the precise date is not recorded), the second daughter of Major John Humphreys and his wife Elizabeth Frances Reed.

          At the age of fifteen on her father's appointment as agent to the Marquis of Abercorn she moved to live at Milltown House, Strabane. It was at this time that she began to display her talent for writing poetry which explained in a simple but memorable way the core of the Christian faith.

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

          Charles Gounod, the composer of the famous nineteenth-century Grand Opera, Faust, said that some of her lyrics "seemed to set themselves to music