Rev Ernest William Gallagher & Mrs Irene Muriel Gallagher papers

Typescript of a sermon entitled 'Independence Day' delivered by Rev H Sumitra in the College Chapel [Bangalore UTC, India] on 15 August 1947. Publications: 'Hyderabad Bulletin' (Vol V, No 4, November 1942-January 1943); newsletter (No 13) of the Women's Department of the Irish Auxiliary [Methodist],...

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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/Box 1213
Date(s) of creation: 1943-1967
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           
Main author: Gallagher; Ernest William (1918-1984); ordained missionary, missionary administrator
Other authors: Gallagher; Irene Muriel (1921-2010); née Hyman; educational missionary, lay preacher

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title Rev Ernest William Gallagher & Mrs Irene Muriel Gallagher papers
scb_date_creation 1943-1967
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author Gallagher; Ernest William (1918-1984); ordained missionary, missionary administrator
author_facet Gallagher; Ernest William (1918-1984); ordained missionary, missionary administrator
Gallagher; Irene Muriel (1921-2010); née Hyman; educational missionary, lay preacher
authorStr Gallagher; Ernest William (1918-1984); ordained missionary, missionary administrator
author_letter Gallagher; Ernest William (1918-1984); ordained missionary, missionary administrator
author2 Gallagher; Irene Muriel (1921-2010); née Hyman; educational missionary, lay preacher
author2Str Gallagher; Irene Muriel (1921-2010); née Hyman; educational missionary, lay preacher
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scb_admin_history Irene Muriel Hyman (always known as Muriel) was born on 27 October 1921 and was involved with the Girls' League in the Leicester and Oxford District of the Methodist Church as well as teaching for three years at Coalville, Leicestershire. In 1945 she was accepted by the Women's Work department of the Methodist Missionary Society and spent a year at Kingsmead College, Selly Oak, Birmingham, preparing for missionary work. After attending the last MMS synod in Medak, India, in December 1946 she was sent to language school in Bangalore to learn Telugu. In November 1947 she joined the staff of the Girls' Training School in Karim Nagar, which was now part of the newly created Church of South India, where her duties included the training of Biblewomen. During 1950 she briefly acted as the school's principal. However, in October of that year she married Rev Ernest Gallagher and formally resigned her position. Ernest William Gallagher was born in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland on 24 August 1918, and was educated at the Masonic Boys' School, Dublin, and then at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1940 he entered the Methodist ministry, training at Edgehill College, Belfast, and was posted to the Hyderabad District of the Methodist Missionary Society in 1943. After his marriage to Irene Hyman, and a brief furlough in England, they lived and worked in the Medak Diocese of the Church of South India. Both fluent in Telugu they continued their work in education, albeit for Irene now as a missionary wife raising small children as well. Ernest worked at the Men's Training College whilst Irene assisted with the teaching of students' wives as well as undertaking some lay preaching. In June 1958 they transferred to Nizamabad. Ernest had responsibility for four pastorate areas (which included schools and hospitals) whilst Muriel acted as the Guide Commissioner for the area as well as the nursery schools secretary for the Diocese. In March 1960 they relocated to Secunderabad where Ernest became Diocesan Treasurer and MMS Committee Representative whilst Muriel continued her work teaching women and children. In August 1966 the family left India for Ireland where they served in Dublin until 1982. During this period Ernest was the General Secretary of the MMS (Ireland) from 1969 to 1977, chaplain to the universities of Dublin and in 1981 served as President of the Methodist Conference of Ireland. In 1982 he was made the Principal of Edgehill College, Belfast, where he served until his death on 21 February 1984. Irene Muriel Gallagher died in September 2010.
scb_acquisition Gift, accepted on behalf of the Methodist Church, from Mrs Janet McDermot of Dublin, Ireland, July 2011
description Typescript of a sermon entitled 'Independence Day' delivered by Rev H Sumitra in the College Chapel [Bangalore UTC, India] on 15 August 1947. Publications: 'Hyderabad Bulletin' (Vol V, No 4, November 1942-January 1943); newsletter (No 13) of the Women's Department of the Irish Auxiliary [Methodist], February 1958; newsletter (no 4) from Alan & Joyce Ross of CSI, Deccan, India, August 1949; MMS Women's Work Monthly letter (no 129), March 1950; CSI newsletters (Medak - January 1960, February 1962, January 1963 & August 1967; Nirmal Mission, Easter 1964). Images: mounted copies of photographs taken of the interior and exterior of Medak Cathedral by Rev Ferguson, mid C20th; group photograph [?Medak Diocese], ?1963.
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GB/SOASNAF/P981
scb_place_code 1263231
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scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright held by various
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
language English
language_search English
scb_related_material For a more detailed account of Irene Muriel Hyman's work and then her and her husband's work please consult MMS/Special Series/Celebrate Together/Box 1207. Any extant correspondence written by Irene Muriel Gallagher whilst working for the Women's Work Department of the MMS will be amongst its India correspondence. Also within the records of the Methodist Missionary Society is the official correspondence for Ernest William Gallagher (MMS/India/Correspondence/Hyderabad/FBN 16 & MMS Box 1276-1277). Further information on his work, as well as the work of his colleagues, will be contained in the relevant Synod Minutes (MMS/India/Synod Minutes/South India/FBN 22 Box 1270-1274).
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