William Alexander

In 1848CFA met British novelist Charlotte Yonge and the leader of the Oxford Movement , John Keble .CFA 's husband believed that Keble endowed her with a sense of the magic, of the...

A century later, the writer Kate O'Brien told a probably apocryphal story about the Alexander family's ecumenism. The Viceroy of Ireland, she says, wanted to have a strictly private and apparently casual word in confidence...

The streets were thronged with crowds of people to witness the funeral procession for the beloved of the poor. She was buried in the City Cemetery.William Alexander fondly recollected that throughout the...

Cecil Frances Humphreys married the Rev.William Alexander at Strabane Church, Strabane, County Tyrone.

CFA 's widower William Alexander became the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, a position he held until his death in 1911.

Also a follower of the Oxford Movement , Alexander was rector of Termonamongan parish, Killeter, County Tyrone, from that year; he too was a poet.

Alexander 's esteem for his wife is reflected in his Preface to her Poems, where he writes that while his beloved had no pretension whatever to regular beauty, she possessed the sensitive susceptibility...

William and Cecil Frances Alexander had four children.

In 1847, on a visit to her sister Anne in Leamington, CFA met the Vicar of Leeds, writer Walter Farquar Hook . Her husband William Alexander wrote in the Preface to her...

While CFA 's husband was rector of the parish of Termonamongan, from 1850-1855, she carried out ministrations of condolence, counsel, [and] charitable help.William Verner , a later rector of the parish...

Her husband wrote that CFA possessed a quality which seemed to be excluded from the ethics of literary people, even when they are religious—the grace of humility. Devoting much of her time to duties...

From 1867-1869, CFA and her husband resisted the political crusade against the established Irish Church . Her main involvement was providing hospitality, which she did with an ease and natural dignity, for those...

CFA 's husband was the rector of Camus-juxta-Mourne, Strabane, County Tyrone.

Following the birth of their first two children, CFA and her husband relocated to St Mura, Fahan, Donegal following his appointment as rector of that parish. They remained there between 1855-1860.

From 1867-1896CFA 's husband was the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. He held his seat at Londonderry, until the year following her death.