1841-1931

March 3, 1841, Li­ver­pool, Eng­land.

March 20, 1931, ­­Mid­dle­bo­rough, York­shire, Eng­land..

Daugh­ter of S. M. Bul­ley of Li­ver­pool, and grand­daugh­ter of Thom­as Raf­fles, Em­ma was mar­ried in 1874 to non­con­form­ist min­is­ter Elkanah Arm­i­tage, who was (as of 1891), The­o­lo­gic­al Pro­fess­or at the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Unit­ed Coll­ege at Brad­ford, Eng­land. In Oc­to­ber 1871, she was one of the first five students at Newn­ham Col­lege, Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty , and taught his­to­ry in the Wo­men’s De­part­ment at Ow­ens Col­lege in Manches­ter. She was the first wo­man on the school board at Roth­er­ham, York­shire; an hon­or­a­ry fel­low of the Society of An­ti­quar­ies of Scot­land; and first pre­si­dent of the York­shire Con­gre­ga­tion­al Wo­men’s Guild of Christ­ian Ser­vice. Her works in­clude:

  1. Day of Pray­er Is End­ing, The
  2. Eternal Love, Whose Law Doth Sway
  3. Except the Lord the Tem­ple Build
  4. In Our Dear Lord’s Gar­den
  5. It Is the Lord Him­self Who Tends
  6. March on, March On, Ye Sol­diers True
  7. Not On­ly for the Good­ly Fruit-Trees Tall
  8. O Fa­ther, in Thy Fa­ther’s Heart
  9. O Lord of All, We Bring to Thee Our Sa­cri­fice of Praise
  10. O Lord of Hosts, the Fight Is Long
  11. O Lord of Life, and Love, and Pow­er
  12. Praise Be to God, Who Bids the Earth
  13. Praise for the Gar­den of God up­on Earth
  14. Though Home Be Dear, and Life Be Sweet