Georgiana C. Fullerton

Short Name: Georgiana C. Fullerton
Full Name: Fullerton, Georgiana Charlotte, 1812-1885
Birth Year: 1812
Death Year: 1885

Fullerton, Lady Georgiana Charlotte, daughter of the first Earl Granville, was born Sept. 23, 1812, at Tixall Hall, Staffs., married 1833 A. G. Fullerton of Ballintoy Castle, Antrim; was received into the Church of Rome 1846; d. Jan. 19, 1885, at Bournemouth. She was well known as a novelist (Ellen Middleton, 1844, &c.) and a philanthropist. She contributed to the Holy Family Hymns, 1860, several translations, and the following Nos. 1-4 (all also in the Parochial Hymn Book, 1880):—
1. Christ's soldier, rise. Christian Warfare.
2. I'll never forsake thee, I never will be. Holy Roman Church.
3. In breathless silence kneel. Elevation of the Host.
4. Mary, mother! Shield us through life. Sailors.
5. O Heart of Jesus, Heart of God. Sacred Heart of Jesus. From her Gold-Digger and other Verses, 1872, p. 113, into Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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Lady Georgiana Fullerton (née Leveson-Gower; 23 September 1812 – 19 January 1885) was an English novelist, philanthropist, biographer, and school founder. She was born into a noble political family. She was one of the foremost Roman Catholic novelists writing in England during the nineteenth century.
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