Colquhoun, Frances Sara (Fuller-Maitland)

Author

b Shinfield Park, nr Reading, Berks 1809, d Edinburgh 1877. She wrote at least 3 hymns before the age of 18, including her adaptation of the hymn by H K White (qv) with which she became associated. Two of these were published in a collection compiled in 1827 by her mother, Mrs Bethia F-M of Stanstead Hall and Henley-on-Thames, Hymns for Private Devotion, Selected and Original. A third was added in its 1863 edn. Frances married John Colquhoun, son of Sir James C, in 1834. Her own collected verses Rhymes and Chimes appeared in 1876, but her name is now known chiefly (if at all) for her part in the editing of HKW’s hymn. No.886*.