Jane Euphemia Saxby

Jane Euphemia Saxby (27 January 1811 – 25 March 1898) was a British hymn writer.

[2] Her first volume of verse was the collection The Dove on the Cross (1849), which included the hymns "Father, into Thy loving hands", "O Holy Ghost, the Comforter", "Show me the way, O Lord", and "Thou God of love, beneath Thy sheltering wings".

[3] Another collection, The Voice of the Bird (1875), included the hymn "O Jesus Christ, the holy One".

[1] Her collection of children's verse, Aunt Effie's Gift to the Nursery (1876), was illustrated by Hablot Knight Brown.

She may have written it for the children of her sister Caroline, who married Charles Shore, 2nd Baron Teignmouth.

All Saints' Church in East Clevedon