Sarah Betts Rhodes

RHODES, Sarah Betts (neé Bradshaw). b. Sheffield, 1829 (baptised 23 October 1831); d. Wakefield, 21 November 1904. She married Jehoida Alsop Rhodes, a master silversmith and silver merchant. Largely self-educated, with her husband’s encouragement, she became a writer and sculptor. After his death she became headmistress of Worksop High School for Girls. She was a Congregationalist. Rhodes is known for one hymn, ‘God, who made the earth’*, printed in the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book (1879) with the signature ‘S’, and often used...