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Cecil Frances Alexander: A pioneer of deaf education
"All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small…"
The classic hymn by Cecil Frances Alexander has endured the test of time, years after her birth.
But few know of the part both great and small that the hymn played in transforming the education of deaf children in 19th century northern Ireland.
And fewer still know the tragedy that befell its writer's dream.
Cecil Frances (Humphreys) Alexander and her sister Anne were very involved in local church activities in Strabane, including visits to local families.
It was on one of these visits they encountered a small deaf boy from a poor home.
"They were concerned about the barrenness of his existence and the blank future he faced and also the fact he was cut off from knowledge of the love of God and the Christian way of life," said Brian Symington.
School for deaf children
Mr Symington previously led the
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The work of Cecil Frances Alexander will be familiar to people all over the world. As one of Ireland’s foremost writers of hymns and poems she produced what is arguably one of the most famous and well-loved hymns of all time; All Things Bright and Beautiful.
In April she was born in Dublin, the third daughter of land agent Major John Humphreys and began writing poetry in early childhood. She went on to write many religious works influenced by the Oxford Movement, which stood for the reinstatement of lost Christian traditions. Her book Hymns for Little Children was first published in and contained All Things Bright and Beautiful, written to help explain to children the opening words of the Apostles’ Creed, a Christian statement of belief. Here are the opening lines:
Cecil Alexander embodied the great Victorian tradition of charity work and helping the poor and disadvantaged. With her sister she established, in , a school for the deaf, using her own money earned from her first publi