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41 photographs of Peter S. Kirkwood, teacher at Livingstonia, Malawi.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13580
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41 photographs of Peter Scott Kirkwood, teacher at Livingstonia, Malawi.Peter Scott Kirkwood was appointed as a teacher to Overtoun Institution in 1906. He married Janet Gilmour in 1910, and the couple`s first child, Janet Hinshaw Kirkwood, was born in April 1913. Kirkwood returned to Scotland in 1915 on furlough, and spent part of the First World War on service with the Y.M.C.A. After the birth of his son in January 1918, and leaving his wife behind in Scotland,...
Dates:
1906-1930
Biographical notes on Rev Malcolm Moffat, missionary.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13407
Scope and Contents
Biographical notes, 2013, on Rev Malcolm Moffat, missionary to Livingstonia, Malawi. Rev Moffat, grandson of Robert and Mary Moffat, became an agriculturalist at the Overtoun Institute at Livingstonia, Malawi in 1894. He spent much of his career at Chitambo, and his work included Bible translation.
Dates:
2013
Journal of James Sutherland, missionary in Livingstonia, Malawi.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13411
Scope and Contents
Journal, 1880-1881, of James Sutherland, missionary in Livingstonia, Malawi. James Sutherland was recruited as an agriculturalist for the Free Church of Scotland mission in Nyasaland, now Malawi, during its early years. His journal describes his journey up the Zambesi and the Shire, and includes comment on the landscape and its suitability for cultivation. Sutherland arrives at the Church of Scotland mission at Blantyre in February 1881, where he stays for a few weeks before...
Dates:
1880-1885.
Lecture notes and photographs on the life of Mary Scott, missionary.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13406
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Lecture notes and reminiscences by Mrs Martha Steedman, 2012, on Miss Mary Scott, missionary of Kalimpong and Sikkim. Page 4 of the notes was not received from the donor. The notes are accompanied by early 21st century photographs of the school with which Miss Scott was so heavily involved in establishing at Gangtok and its surrounding area.
Dates:
2012
Minutes, journals, newsletters, visitors’ books, correspondence, photographs and printed books of St Colm’s College; with the papers of Effie Gray, a former student and teacher at the College.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13301/1-331
Scope and Contents
Papers of St Colm`s College, 1839-2010, including minutes, journals, newsletters, visitors` books, correspondence, photographs and printed books.The history of the college is complex, and it has undergone a number of name changes. The Women`s Missionary Institute of the Free Church of Scotland began in Edinburgh in 1894. Increasing expansion of student numbers saw a larger purpose-built institution commissioned at 23 Inverleith Terrace, Edinburgh. Although supported by what was...
Dates:
1839-2010.
Papers of William Summers Sutherland, missionary in Kalimpong.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13268/1-8
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Letters, diary, notes and photographs, 1894-1920, of Dr William Summers Sutherland (1856-1924), Church of Scotland minister and missionary, and his wife, Annabella.Sutherland`s first posting as a missionary was to Darjeeling in 1879, later moving to the station at Kalimpong, India. Most of the papers in this archive relate to the two visits made by Sutherland to Bhutan. The first was in 1917, during which Sutherland was involved in the baptism of a Lepcha man. The second took...
Dates:
1890-1919, undated.
Papers probably of Isabel N. Fleming, Church of Scotland missionary and science teacher at Moukden Medical College, Manchuria
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13193
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Small file of papers, c.1920s-1940s, probably of Isabel N. Fleming, Church of Scotland missionary and teacher at Moukden Medical College, Manchuria, China. The papers are in Mandarin, and include a handwritten note, probably from an unidentified male writer, sending good wishes on hearing that the recipient is to leave the country,. There is also a booklet of the New Testament, a small notebook and printed sheets listing students, and a booklet entitled `Sheng Jing Medical College`, which...
Dates:
circa 1920-1940.
Photographic slides of Elizabeth Mantell, missionary in Malawi.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13435
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth worked as a Church of Scotland missionary nurse in Mlanje Mission, Malawi 1966-1971, then as a sister tutor in Ekwendeni Mission, Malawi 1983-1996. Elizabeth used this set of annotated slides to illustrate talks on her work in Malawi which she gave when home on furlough. Subjects covered include schools, nurses, the church and visits to Zomba. `Grace sufficient` by Rev. David J. Randall, published in 2009, tells the story of Elizabeth`s life.
Dates:
1966-1971
Photographic slides relating to Calabar and Mary Slessor
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13192
Scope and Contents
5 photographic slides, c.1950s-1960s, of Mr J. D. Brown, medical missionary in Calabar, 1957-1964.The images include a memorial for Mary Slessor, Free Church Missionary, in Use near Itu, where she spent the last months of her life, and her grave in Calabar. There is also an image of the Doctor`s house at the Mary Slessor Hospital in Itu. This was where Slessor had reportedly housed the twins she had rescued in the early part of the 20th century. Mr Brown worked as a medical...
Dates:
1957-1964.
Sermons of Rev Robert Mitchell Beedie, missionary.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13539
Scope and Contents
Sermons, 1876-1896 and undated, of Rev Robert Mitchell Beedie, missionary in Calabar, Nigeria.Robert Mitchell Beedie was born in 1841 in Aberdeenshire. A carpenter by trade in Scotland, Beedie joined the United Presbyterian mission, and entered Old Calabar in 1873 at Ikorofiong, the furthest up-river station of the mission. Beedie was ordained in 1878, and in 1884, was transferred to Duke Town on the banks of the Calabar river. He died in 1897.The papers consist of...
Dates:
1876-1896, undated.