Mary Peters (hymn writer)

Mary Peters (17 April 1813 – 29 July 1856) was a British hymnwriter. She produced more than fifty hymns.[1]

Mary Peters
Born17 April 1813
Cirencester
Died29 July 1856
Clifton
NationalityBritish

Biography

Mary Bowly was born in Cirencester in 1813,[2] to Richard and Mary Bowly.

She married John McWilliam Peters who was the vicar of Quenington and then Langford. Peters gave her efforts to writing and she wrote her hymns by the time she was thirty. She created a large history in seven volumes from the "point of creation to the start of Queen Victoria's reign", but her notability comes from her hymns.[3]

Peters married John Peters at the age of 39 with a ceremony conducted by the Plymouth Brethren[4]

Peters died in Clifton in 1856.[5][6]

Selected works
  • The World's History from the Creation to the Accession of Queen Victoria
  • Hymns intended to help the Communion of Saints, 1847

References
  1. ""A Goodly Heritage" (29): Mrs Mary Peters (1813-1856) | Believer's Magazine". Believers Magazine. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  2. Randolph, Anson D.F. (1870). Ichthus Christ in Song: Hymns of Immanuel (Public domain ed.). Anson D.F. Randolph. pp. 513–.
  3. "Peters, Mary" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. Through the love of God our Saviour, singingthefaithplus, retrieved 21 March 2015
  5. W. B. Lowther, ‘Peters , Mary (1813–1856)’, rev. Rosemary Mitchell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 21 March 2015
  6. Phillips & Hunt (1881). Hymnal of the Methodist Epsicopal Church: With Tunes (Public domain ed.). Phillips & Hunt. p. 458.
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