2. The author of some 400 hymns, the writer Mrs. C. F. Alexander is often also credited under her given names. What were they?
From Quiz Things Bright & Beautiful: C F Alexander's story
Answer:
Cecil Frances
Fanny Humphreys was born in Dublin - some sources say Wicklow - in the early 1800s. In some sources you will see the date given as 1823, but it is said that her birth record was altered to 1818 when she married a man six years her junior; which would have been regarded as scandalous in polite society at that time.
As a child, she was a gifted poet and was encouraged by her father, Major John Humphreys, who became land agent to the Marquess of Abercorn and they moved to Strabane, Co Tyrone.
Many of her early poems and hymns were written while she lived at Milltown House, just outside Strabane.
In 1848 or 1850 (sources differ) she married a cleric, William Alexander, a church of Ireland rector. He was later to become Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, and Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.