Church Missionary Society

FRH grew up in a pious Anglican family, and was later deeply religious herself, as evident in her writings. She developed an interest in the Church Missionary Society (as well as its Irish counterpart), the...

Presumably white, JI was born into the English middle class, though her mother was of Scottish background. She apparently inherited her Evangelical leanings from her mother also. From an early age she attended meetings of...

AG 's paternal aunts were closely associated in their youth with the young John Henry Newman and his brother Francis W. Newman . Sarah married a curate working for William Wilson (AG 's grandfather)....

Having worked before her marriage with the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants (founded by Octavia Hill ), Mary Oman worked in Oxford for innumerable charities including the Church Missionary Society . She supported...

Following her introduction to James Smith , CFA founded a Church Missionary Society auxiliary which, according to biographer Ernest Lovell , was something of an innovation in an Irish country parish.

With the assistance of Dr Arthur Neve from the Church Missionary Society mission hospital in Srinagar, Kashmir, IB bought land in Islamabad (now in Pakistan), thirty miles from Srinagar, on which to erect...

As well as teaching, she intervened to prevent a prison officer ill-treating a female inmate, and did some doctoring for local people. A surprise inspection visit by the Governor to her school turned out extremely...

In her youth CL worked for the Jews' Society (which proselytized among Jews on behalf of Christianity), the Church Missionary Society , and the Seamen's Society , and with her mother she visited workhouses.

Throughout the 1850s, while still in her teenage years, she began writing poetry more seriously, and around 1855 she began contributing to a variety of popular but lesser-known periodical publications. Any money she earned was...

Following her death, the Church Missionary Society organized the Frances Ridley Havergal Church Missionary Society Memorial Fund and by 1880 had raised almost £2,000. Countless other funds and charities have relied on the use of...

Hull, however, offered its own interest. Eliza Keary writes of the proliferation of religious societies, especially the Church Missionary Society , the fierce party politics, and the Friday prayer meetings (held in various houses and...

It had taken her nearly ten years of lobbying to arrange a voyage to Africa, and she also hankered to travel as far as Russia and China. She travelled with fellow Quakers Richard Smith

HK arrived at a turbulent stage in the colony's development. Sierra Leone had been founded by Anglicans, whose dominance was now being challenged by black settlers from Nova Scotia, mostly Methodists, who were affronted by...

As well as unsatisfactory, they found their conditions dangerous. On HK 's return to Gambia from Sierra Leone she heard that the governor, Sir Charles MacCarthy , had been killed in the early stages of...

HM left more than one-third of her estate—over £10,000—to charity. She left money locally (to pensioners, and the poor, and Female Clubs), and to institutions (both nationally and to Bristol branches) like the Anti-Slavery Society