Elizabeth Golby photographs

Principally comprising photographs of staff, patients and facilities in Methodist missionary medical institutions in Eastern Nigeria. With a small number of letters and newspaper cuttings.


Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Africa/Box 1216
Date(s) of creation: 1920s-c1980
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           
Main author: Green; Elizabeth (1908-1993); née Golby; nurse, medical missionar

Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Africa/Box 1216
Summary: Principally comprising photographs of staff, patients and facilities in Methodist missionary medical institutions in Eastern Nigeria. With a small number of letters and newspaper cuttings.
Main author: Green; Elizabeth (1908-1993); née Golby; nurse, medical missionar
Extent: 4 folders
Admin history: Elizabeth Golby was born in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, on 24 May 1908 and grew up at Castle Wharf, Hertfordshire. Her father, who worked in local government, was a Methodist lay preacher as well as the chapel steward for the Banbury Circuit. Golby was educated at Dashwood Road Day School but, after her mother's death, she took over domestic duties for the family at the age of twelve. As a child she was a member of both the Band of Hope and the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society Juvenile Missionary Association and as a teenager was involv ... View more
Custodial history: A small number of items originally belonged to Doris (Dorothy) Coe. Donated to the Methodist Church by Elizabeth Green, 27 October 1982.
Access status: Open
Copyright: Copyright held by various
User restrictions: For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
Language: English
Scripts: Roman
Related material: Any extant correspondence written by Elizabeth Golby whilst a medical missionary in Nigeria will be amongst MMS/Womens Work/Correspondence/Africa/FBN 4-5). A brief autbiographical account of her work and life (under her married name of Green) is available (MMS/Special Series/Celebrate Together/Box 1206).
Format: Archive