Elizabeth Parson (née Rooker; 5 June 1812 – 6 May 1873) was a British hymn writer.
William Rooker was the first minister at Tavistock United Reformed Church in Brook Street in 1796.
[1] From 1840, his daughter Elizabeth led a class for young members of the congregation.
Over the next four years, Elizabeth wrote a number of hymns for her class.
She stopped leading the class in 1840, which was the same year as she married Thomas Edgecombe Parson, who was a solicitor.