Elizabeth Cecelia Douglas Clephane
Born: June 18, 1830, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Died: February 19, 1869, Bridgend House, near Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
Buried: St. Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Elizabeth was the third daughter of Andrew Clephane, Sheriff of Fife and Kinross.
She lived most of her life in Melrose, Scotland, about 30 miles southeast of
Edinburgh. She spent most of her money on charitable causes, and was known
locally as “The Sunbeam.”
Clephane’s hymns appeared posthumously, almost all for
the first time, in the Family Treasury (1872), under the general title
of “Breathings on the Border.”
Hymns