Dorothy Gurney

Dorothy Frances Blomfield (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 George Blomfield, Rector of St Andrew Undershaft in the City of London, she married the actor Gerald Gurney in 1897. In 1904 her husband was ordained an Anglican priest,[7] and later they both joined the Roman Catholic church in 1919.[8]

Dorothy Frances (Dora) Blomfield (later 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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