Starry hosts are gleaming

Author: Elvira Lee

Lee, Elvira Louisa, née Ostrehan, was b. Nov. 22, 1838, at Shepscombe Vicarage, Gloucs., m. June 9, 1859, the Rev. F. G. Lee (p. 1577, i.), and d. Sept. 1, 1890, at All Saints Vicarage, Lambeth, Surrey. She was the author of The Departed and other Verses, 1865, contributed to the Penny Post, to the Annus Sanctus of Mr. Orby Shipley, &c. Her hymn, “Starry hosts are gleaming” [Evening], is in Annus Sanctus, 1884, pt. ii., pp. viii., 11; in A. E. Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1887, No. 82, &c. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)  Go to person page >