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Mrs Alexander

(Cecil Frances Humphreys, 1818–95, m. William Alexander 1850)
Irish author whose Hymns for Little Children (1848) contains three of the best-known hymns in the English language – *'All things bright and beautiful', 'There is a green hill far away' and 'Once in royal David's city' (popular also as a *carol).
 








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