Elizabeth Ayton Godwin (4 July 1817 – 26 March 1889) was a Victorian era Christian hymn writer and religious poet.
[1] She was born at Thorpe Hamlet, Norfolk, England, 4 July 1817.
Her father was William Ellis Etheridge.
Her hymn in common use is "My Saviour, 'mid life's varied scene" (Lent), written while still a girl, and first printed in the Evangelical Magazine, and then in Songs for the Weary, 1865.
She died at Stoke Bishop, 26 March 1889.