Jessie Seymour Irvine
IRVINE, Jessie Seymour. b. Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, 26 July 1836; d. Aberdeen, 2 September 1887. She was the daughter of Alexander Irvine, Minister of Crimond, Aberdeenshire. After an apparently uneventful life, she was buried in St Machar’s Cathedral, Aberdeen.
She was possibly the composer of the tune CRIMOND, found in the Scottish Psalter (1929) and made famous in the early days of broadcasting by Sir Hugh Roberton and the Glasgow Orpheus Choir as a setting for the metrical version of Psalm 23 beginning ‘The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want’*). It was chosen for two royal occasions: the wedding of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) to Philip Mountbatten in 1947, and the...
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