Dorothy Gurney

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]

Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney
Born
Dorothy Frances Blomfield

October 4, 1858
Finsbury Circus, London, UK
DiedJune 15, 1932 (aged 73)
NationalityBritish
Occupationhymn-writer
Notable work
"God's Garden"

References
  1. cyberhymnal
  2. "Dorothy F. Gurney". hymnary.org. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  3. "Poems. - British Library". explore.bl.uk. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  4. "Blomfield, Charles James (1786–1857), bishop of London". www.oxforddnb.com. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  5. Obituary- The Bishop Of Colchester The Times, Tuesday, 6 November 1894; p. 10; Issue 34414; col. C
  6. 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
  7. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p603: London, Horace Cox, 1908
  8. Vlieland, Jerome Nicholas (9 January 2013). "Jerome Nicholas Vlieland: Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney". Jerome Nicholas Vlieland. Retrieved 19 March 2020.


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