Anna Laetitia Waring

Anna Letitia Waring (or Anna Laetitia Waring; 19 April 1823 – 10 May 1910) was a Welsh poet and Anglican hymn-writer. Her philanthropic support included the Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. She brought out her first hymn collection in 1850, but much of her work remained unpublished at the time of her death. A 1911 posthumous edition collected most of this, religious and secular.

Early life and education Waring was born at Plas-y-Felin, Neath, the third of the seven children of Elijah Waring (1787–1857) and his wife, Deborah. She learned Hebrew in order to study the Old Testament in the original.

Scott sees Waring as typifying a conventional Victorian view of womanhood: pious, reserved, and given to "good works". Her burial service, at Arnos Vale Cemetery, was led by Canon Talbot, the husband of one of her nieces.