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Oct 04, 1858 Finsbury Circus, England, United Kingdom Died on 15 Jun 1932 (aged 73)
English hymnwriter, poet
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About Dorothy Gurney
- Dorothy Frances Blomfield Gurney (1858–1932) was an English hymn-writer and poet.Gurney was the granddaughter of Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London from 1828 to 1856; niece to the architect Sir Arthur Blomfield and Alfred Blomfield, Bishop of Colchester from 1882 to 1894; and cousin of the geologist Francis Arthur Bather.
- 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, but they both joined the Roman Catholic church in 1919.
