Plumb, Isabella (Church of Scotland missionary)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1861-1944. - 1944
Biography
Isabella Plumb was born and brought up in Norfolk, though when she came to fulfil her childhood ambition of becoming a missionary it was as an agent of the Aberdeen Auxiliary of the Church of Scotland Women's Association for Foreign Missions. She stayed with the Auxiliary from 1882, when she travelled to her first posting in Poona, through a subsequent move to Sialkot in 1889 where she remained until her retirement in 1925. She stayed on in India until 1930 on a voluntary basis, running a missionaries' rest-home - for which she had successfully campaigned - at Dalhousie hill station. She was also an enthusiastic traveller, public speaker and collector of photographs.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Correspondence, journals, photographs and other papers of Isabella Plumb, mostly relating to her missionary work at Pune, India and Sialkot, Pakistan.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12680/1-46
Dates:
1862-1956, undated.