Flora Hastings

Flora Hastings
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Short Name: Flora Hastings
Full Name: Hastings, Flora, 1806-1839
Birth Year: 1806
Death Year: 1839

Hastings, Lady Flora, daughter of the Marquess of Hastings, was born at Edinburgh, Feb. 11, 1806, and died July 5, 1839. Her hymns appeared in her posthumous Poems by the Lady Flora Hastings, Edited by her Sister [the Marchioness of Bute], 1841. The best known of her hymns is “O Thou, Who for our fallen race." (The humility and love of Christ.) This is usually given in an abbreviated form, as in W. F. Stevenson's Hymns for Church and Home, 1873.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Wikipedia Biography

Lady Flora Elizabeth Rawdon-Hastings (11 February 1806 – 5 July 1839) was a British aristocrat and lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent. Her death in 1839 was the subject of a court scandal that gave the Queen a negative image.

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