Florence Aylward was an English composer known for ballads. She was born at Brede Rectory in Brede, East Sussex

Brede, East Sussex

Brede is a village and civil parish in the Rother District of East Sussex, England. It is located eight miles north of Hastings and four miles west of Rye...

, England

England

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 in 1862, the daughter of the Rector of Brede, Augustus Aylward and his wife Mary. Aylward studied at the Guildhall School.

Family life

Aylward married Harold Kinder, an architect, in 1881 in Rye

Rye, East Sussex

Rye is a small town in East Sussex, England, which stands approximately two miles from the open sea and is at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede...

, Sussex. They had one son, Harold, born in 1886.

Works

Aylward published a number of songs in 1909. Selected works include:

• "Beloved it is morn"
• "Call of Life"
• "Love's Coronation"
• "Made a Man"
• "Morning and You!"
• "Song of the Bow"
• "Thrush to his Love"
• "For your sake"
• "The Country Faith"
• "Deep in my heart a lute lay hid"
• "The bird I love the best"