Born: 1864, Bloom­field, Ess­ex, Eng­land.

Mary was the daugh­ter of John Brad­ford Whit­ing, Vi­car of St. Luke’s, Rams­gate, Kent. She con­trib­ut­ed a num­ber of hymns to her fa­ther’s Hymns for the Church Ca­tho­lic, 1882. Her works in­clude:

• The Squire of the Parish
• Stronger Than Fate
• A Thorny Way (Nel­son, 1900)
• “The Raj Incarnate,” 1911
• Meriel’s Career—A Tale of Li­ter­a­ry Life in Lon­don, 1915
• Wallaby Hill, a child­ren’s no­vel, 1921
• A Daughter of the Em­pire (Lon­don: Hum­phrey Mil­ford Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty, 1921)
• Dante the Man and Po­et, 1922
• What Ha­zel Did
• Dauntless Heart
• The Plough of Shame
• Put to the Test and other Stor­ies of Life and Ad­ven­ture, 1933
• “The Read­ing of the Will”

Hymns

1. Come Ye Yourselves Apart and Rest Awhile
2. Lord of Might, Our Land’s De­fend­er
3. O Sun of Truth and Glo­ry
4. O Word of Love! O Word of Life
5. Stars of Ev­en­ing Soft­ly Gleam­ing
6. There Was Beau­ty on the Sea
7. Time Is Swift­ly Pass­ing o’er Us
8. To Mourn the Dead We Ga­ther Here
9. To Thee, Cre­at­or, in Whose Love
10. What Was the Ho­ly Joy, O Lord