ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824-191i), Protestant arch bishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, was born at London derry on April 13, 1824, and educated at Tonbridge school and Brasenose college, Oxford. He was made bishop of Derry and Raphoe in 1867, and was elevated to the primacy in 1896. His poems were collected in 1887 under the title of St. Augustine's Holiday, and other Poems.
His wife, CECILE FRANCES HUMPHREYS (1818-1895), wrote some tracts in connection with the Oxford movement, but is famous as the author of "Jesus calls us o'er the tumult," "There is a green hill far away," and other well-known hymns (nearly 400 in all). A collection of her verse was published in 18g6.