// Workers AI · dad joke modeDid Elizabeth Chadwick have a mission? Yes, it was a "calling".
(Jane) Elizabeth Chadwick, also known as Lisette Chadwick (1869–1940) was an Irish missionary and educator in Uganda and Kenya.
Life
[edit]Elizabeth Chadwick was the daughter of George Chadwick, a Church of Ireland clergyman who later became Bishop of Derry and Raphoe.
Chadwick became a Church Missionary Society missionary, travelling overland with other women missionaries in 1895 from Table Bay, South Africa to Kibwezi, Uganda.[1] As a missionary stationed in Namirembe, Chadwick established the first girls' school in Uganda. From 1916 to 1925 she was a missionary in Butere, Kenya, where she established Butere Girls High School. Some of Chadwick's manuscript memories of her early students have been anthologized.[2]
Her papers are held by the University of Birmingham.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "CMS/ACC167 Accession 167: Papers of Miss Jane Elizabeth Chadwick". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
- ↑ Jane Elizabeth Chadwick; Eva Chadwick (2007). Amandina Lihamba; Fulata Lusungu Moyo; Mugaybuso M. Mulokozi; Naomi L. Shitemi (eds.). Women Writing Africa: The eastern region. Feminist Press at the City University of New York. pp. 103–6. ISBN 978-1-55861-534-2.
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