Elizabeth Chadwick (missionary)

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(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. ^ a b "CMS/ACC167 Accession 167: Papers of Miss Jane Elizabeth Chadwick". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  2. ^ 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.