Jennett Humphreys

Short Name:	Jennett Humphreys
Full Name:	Humphreys, Jennett, 1829-1917
Birth Year (est.):	1829
Death Year:	1917

Humphreys, Jennett, was born in London April 17, 1829. Her hymn “March, my little children” [God our Father], was written in 1885 for a paper "With the little ones," read at Rosslyn Hill School, Hampstead. It was printed in the Inquirer, April 4, 1885, and is in the Rev. W. A. Oxford's Children's Service Hymns and Songs, 1880, the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and others. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A. ]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Wikipedia Biography

Jennett Humphreys (17 April 1829 – 6 February 1917) was a British author, poet, and contributor to major reference works. Humphreys was from Cricklewood, a district in North London, to a Scottish father, Griffith Humphreys, and English mother, Sarah Leggett Humphreys. As a reader she supplied numerous quotations and other information for entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, much of which was a by-product of research for an unpublished book on the early history of cooking, and wrote an article on the OED for Fraser's Magazine. She was the author of many articles in the Dictionary of National Biography.

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