| Order number: |
MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/1411
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| Main author: |
Giles; Isobel Chalmers (1908-2009); educational missionary |
| Extent: |
1 box
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| Admin history: |
Isobel Giles was born on 28 August 1908. She trained as a teacher and gained the Board of Education Elementary Teachers' certificate at Avery Hill College, London. She was an active Methodist Church member in Brunswick, Leeds, whilst teaching in a 'slum school' there. She was accepted as a missionary candidate for the Women's section of the Methodist Missionary Society in the autumn of 1933 and began her training at Kingsmead College, Birmingham, shortly afterwards. She arrived in India in 1935 and began her career at Karur within the MMS Trichinopoly District. Her work was predominately educational but she was involved in some evangelical work. In 1937 she relocated to Dharapuram working in the industrial school for girls where she taught 'homecraft' and for most of her tenure was also the principal of the school.
In 1940 she arrived in England on furlough. She should have returned to India at the end of 1941 but a combination of restrictions (sometimes prohibitions) on women gaining passage on ships to India and her parents’ poor health meant she remained in England. In the autumn of 1942 she took up a temporary teaching post in Derby but still with the intention of continuing her missionary career when possible. In January 1944 she declined an opportunity to return to India and in August she formally left the MMS. She died on 2 January 2009. |
Isobel Giles was born on 28 August 1908. She trained as a teacher and gained the Board of Education Elementary Teachers' certificate at Avery Hill College, London. She was an active Methodist Church member in Brunswick, Leeds, whilst teaching in a 'slum school' there. She was accepted as a missionary candidate for the Women's section of the Methodist Missionary Society in the autumn of 1933 and began her training at Kingsmead College, Birmingham, shortly afterwards. She arrived in India in 1935 and began her career at Karur ... View more |
| Acquisition: |
Gift, accepted on behalf of the Methodist Church, from Mrs Brenda Francis, January 2009 and May 2016
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| Arrangement: |
This collection has been arranged into three sections: Papers & manuscripts; visual material; printed material. Items have been catalogued chronologically within each section. |
| Access status: |
Open
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| Copyright: |
Various copyrights |
| User restrictions: |
For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
| Language: |
English
Tamil
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| Scripts: |
Latin
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| Related material: |
Any extant correspondence by Isobel Giles will be in the Women's Work Trichinopoly District correspondence (MMS/Women’s Work/Correspondence/FBN 24 & 25) or general India correspondence (MMS Box 1304) |
| Format: |
Archive
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