Background
Charitie was born on 21 June 1841, at Bloomfield, County Dublin, the fourth child of Review George Sidney Smith and Charlotte Lees.
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Charitie Lees Smith
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In 1860, one of Charitie"s first compositions O for the robes of whiteness appeared in leaflet form in the immediate aftermath of the Irish 1859 revival. In 1863 she wrote perhaps her best known hymn "Before the Throne of God Above" which she entitled The Advocate (a hymn which was revived in evangelical circles in the late Twentieth Century). In 1867 Charitie"s father took the family to Tattyreagh, Omagh, County Tyrone, when he became the rector of Street Columba"s Church.
Charitie continued with her compositions eventually publishing them in a volume entitled Within the Veil in 1867.
In 1869, a Liverpudlian Arthur Bancroft married Charitie in Edinburgh, Scotland. She died on 20 June 1923, in Oakland, California aged 82 bearing the name de Cheney.
