Sybil Farish Partridge

PARTRIDGE, Sybil Farish (Sister Mary Xavier (SMX)). b. London, ca. 1856; d. Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire, 23 February 1917. Sybil Partridge became a teaching nun of the order of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur at Liverpool. Her ‘In Hymnis et Canticis’: Verses Sacred and Profane (1903) was dedicated ‘To the former students of the Liverpool Training College for whom most of these verses were written in memory of many happy years of work amongst them’. This statement, in conjunction with the fact that at least one of her hymns, ‘Martyrs of England!’ was published in the SND’s first hymnal, Convent Hymns and Music as used by the Pupils of the Sisters of Notre Dame, Liverpool (1891),...