Hornblower, Jane Elizabeth Roscoe

Name ID: http://viaf.org/viaf/74211865

Born: 1797

Died: 1853

Faith: Unitarian

Note: Jane E. Roscoe was a poet. She was the daughter of the abolitionist MP William Roscoe
(1753–1831) and Jane Roscoe (née Griffies). In 1838 she married the Unitarian minister
Francis Hornblower (1812–1853). Her Poems by one of the Authors of Poems for Youth
by a Family Circle were published in 1820, and her Poems in 1843 Her hymns in common
use are:—
1. How rich the blessings, O my God. Gratitude. In the Liverpool Kenshaw Street Collection
1818.
2. My Father, when around me spread. Peace in Affliction. Appeared in the Monthly
Repository, Dec, 1828; and the Sacred Offering, 1832.
3. O God, to Thee, Who first hast given. Self-Consecration. In Poems for Youth, 1820.
4. Thy will be done, I will not fear. Resignation.
[Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.] (John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907).)

Sister of William Stanley Roscoe; Elizabeth Roscoe; Edward Roscoe; James Roscoe; Robert
Roscoe; Thomas Roscoe; Richard Roscoe; Mary Anne Jevons and Henry Roscoe.