Eliza Sibbald Dykes Alderson

Born: August 16, 1818, Kingston upon Hull, Humberside, England. Died: March 18, 1889, Heath (near Wakefield), West Yorkshire, England. Buried: Kirkthorpe, West Yorkshire, England. In 1850, Eliza mar­ried Rev. W. Al­der­son, chap­lain to the West Rid­ing House of Cor­rect­ion, Wake­field. It was there she wrote the ma­jor­i­ty of her hymns. Her bro­ther was com­pos­er John Bacchus Dykes.