# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anne-ross-cousin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:54:16.316Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anne-ross-cousin"
name: "Anne Ross Cousin"
slug: "anne-ross-cousin"
description: "Anne Ross Cousin was a British poet, musician and songwriter. She was a student of John Muir Wood and later became a popular writer of hymns, most especially \"The Sands of Time Are Sinking\", while travelling with her minister husband from 1854 to 1878. Many of her hymns were widely used throughout Great Britain during the mid-to late 19th century. One of her sons, John William Cousin, was a prominent writer and editor of A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature."
tagline: "Scottish musician and songwriter (1824-1906)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anne_Ross_Cundell_Cousin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1824-04-27"
deathDate: "1906-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.75
  momentum:             15.31007751937985
  historical:           5.271454666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Ross_Cousin"
    title: "Anne Ross Cousin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Ross_Cousin"
    title: "Anne Ross Cousin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Ross_Cousin"
    title: "Anne Ross Cousin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/25aa8c37-b5e2-44f0-a757-50b42e97fbf3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Ross_Cousin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Ross_Cousin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4768761"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump