Elizabeth Cecilia Douglas Clephane (18 June 1830 – 19 February 1869) was a Scottish songwriter, who wrote the hymns "The Ninety and Nine" and "Beneath the Cross of Jesus".

[3] Another Clephane hymn, "Beneath the Cross of Jesus", is often heard at Easter,[4] and is usually sung to the tune "St Christopher" by English organist Frederick Charles Maker.

[5][6] Clephane's "The Ninety and Nine" is a reference to the Parable of the Lost Sheep, ending with the celebratory lines, "And the angels echoed around the throne, 'Rejoice, for the Lord brings back His own!'"

[7] The hymn was said to be written after the death of her brother, George Clephane (1819-1851), who had a troubled life in Canada.

[1] She died in 1869, aged 38 years, at Bridgend House, near Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland where she had spent most of her later life.