1841 - 1916 Person Name: Mary Butler, 1841-1916 Author of "Looking upward every day" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada Butler, Mary. The following hymns in Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book 1881:—"Looking upward every day " (Onwards), and "O help me, Lord, this day to be" (Morning), are signed with this name. Beyond this we have no information.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Butler, Mary, p. 1555, ii., is a granddaughter of Bp. Samuel Butler, of Lichfield, 1836-39; and daughter of Thomas Butler, M.A., sometime Rector of Langar, Notts, and Prebendary of Clifton in Lincoln Cath. “Whiteness of the winter's snow" (All from God), in The Council School Hymn Book 1905, is also by Miss Butler.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Mary Butler