Eliza Sibbald Alderson (16 August 1818 – 18 March 1889) was an English poet and hymn writer.
[1][2] On 12 September 1850 ,she married William Thompson Alderson, who was chaplain of the West Riding House of Correction (from 1833 to 1876) and 12 years her senior, at Wakefield Parish Church; the ceremony was performed by her ordained brothers, Thomas, curate of Holy Trinity in Hull, and John Bacchus, precentor of Durham Cathedral.
In that same year, at census time, Eliza was staying with her brother Edward and two of her sisters at his bank in Parliament Street, Hull.
In 1886, she composed a hymn specially for the re-opening of Filey church in East Yorkshire after its restoration.
Her husband had taken a post as curate of Kirkthorpe Church, on the outskirts of Wakefield, in 1880[5] so that in 1881 they lived in the vicarage there until her death on 18 March 1889.