1779–1847

Introduction

Born: June 20, 1779, Pad­ding­ton, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: De­cem­ber 14, 1847, at her home in St. John’s Wood, West­min­ster, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Buried: St. Ma­ry’s Pad­ding­ton Green church­yard, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Pseudonym: Iota.

Biography

Dorothy was the daugh­ter of Jo­seph Thrupp and Ma­ry Bur­gon, and aunt of Ade­laide Thrupp and Jo­seph Fran­cis Thrupp.

Works

Her hymns appeared in the Friend­ly Vi­si­tor and the Child­ren’s Friend, by Rev. W. Ca­rus Wil­son; the Se­lect­ion of Hymns and Poe­try for the Use of In­fant Schools and Nur­ser­ies, by Mrs. Her­bert Ma­yo, 1838; and her Hymns for the Young (Lon­don: 1836).

In 1836 and 1837 Do­ro­thy pub­lished Thoughts for the Day, which em­bo­died ma­ny hymns which pre­vious­ly ap­peared in the Friend­ly Vi­sit­or.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Come, Ho­ly Spir­it, Come
  2. God Loves the Lit­tle Child That Prays
  3. Have You Read the Won­drous Sto­ry?
  4. Let Us Sing with One Ac­cord
  5. Little Ship Was on the Sea, A
  6. Poor and Needy Though I Be
  7. Savior, Like a Shep­herd Lead Us
  8. See, My Child, the Migh­ty Ocean
  9. Thou Guard­ian of My Ear­li­est Days
  10. What a Strange and Won­drous Sto­ry
  11. What Led the Son of God?
  12. Who Are They in Hea­ven Who Stand?

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