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Uganda Ladies’ Party and Uganda Missionaries Party, 1896

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 26/1
Uganda Ladies' Party and Uganda Missionaries Party, 1896
Uganda Ladies' Party and Uganda Missionaries Party, 1896

Scope and Contents

Shows part of the missionary party to Uganda in 1895, including the first five women sent to East Africa by the society. Presumably the slide was taken before the party’s departure from England.
Back row:
Dr. Peter Rattray (1895-96), Rev. F.H. Wright (1895), Rev. M.J. Hall (1895-1900, d. 1900), Rev. T.R. Buckley (1895), Rev. A. Wilson (1895).

Centre row:
Miss Eleanor E. Willows Browne (1895-97, later Mrs F. Rowling), Miss Jane Elizabeth Chadwick (1895), Miss Edith Markham Furley (from 1895), Miss Eliza Louise Pilgrim (1895), Rev. J.B. Purvis (1895-99, 1903-07).

Front row:
Nurse Miss Mary Susannah Thomsett (1895).

For further information about the party see J.D. Mullins, ‘The wonderful story of Uganda’ (1908), pp. 232-33, ‘Church Missionary Intelligencer’, June 1895, p. 408 and A.R. Tucker, ‘Eighteen years in Uganda’ II (1908), p. 11.









Dates

  • Creation: 1896

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Language of Materials

English

Finding aid date

2010-09-24 09:03:24+00:00

Includes index.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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