| Order number: |
MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/Box 1412
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| Summary: |
Two photograph albums and a very brief memoir on her missionary work in Bengal, India.
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| Main author: |
Wood; Lorna Louisa (1908-2005); educational missionary |
| Extent: |
3 items
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| Admin history: |
Lorna Louisa Wood was born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, on 4 August 1908. A Methodist from an early age she trained as an elementary teacher at Southlands College, London, and worked in schools in the UK. She was accepted as a missionary candidate for the Women's section of the Methodist Missionary Society in the summer of 1939 and enrolled for missionary training at Kingsmead College, Birmingham, that autumn. After Kingsmead she was appointed to the MMS Bengal District and left England in November 1941.
Having arrived in India in January 1942 she begun a post teaching English at the Bankura Girls' Boarding School and Day School (which was about a mile outside of the town). By 1943 she was running the school and continued doing so until she left in 1944. By 1945 she was in charge of the Sarenga Girls' Boarding School and Day School (which had 60-70 girls boarding each year) although she had returned to England by 1947 on furlough. After an extended furlough she returned to India in the Autumn of 1949 working at Sarenga again but due to family reasons resigned in the Spring of 1950 and returned to England. Wood died in Farnborough, Hampshire, on 12 April 2005. |
Lorna Louisa Wood was born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, on 4 August 1908. A Methodist from an early age she trained as an elementary teacher at Southlands College, London, and worked in schools in the UK. She was accepted as a missionary candidate for the Women's section of the Methodist Missionary Society in the summer of 1939 and enrolled for missionary training at Kingsmead College, Birmingham, that autumn. After Kingsmead she was appointed to the MMS Bengal District and left England in November 1941.
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| Custodial history: |
Gift to the Methodist Church from Mrs B Haime, June 2005 |
| Acquisition: |
Deposited with SOAS Archives, July 2008
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| Arrangement: |
Listed in chronological order |
| Access status: |
Open
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| Copyright: |
Copyright mainly vested with Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes |
| User restrictions: |
For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
| Language: |
English
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| Scripts: |
Latin
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| Related material: |
Any extant correspondence by Lorna Wood will be in the Women's Work Bengal District correspondence (MMS/Women’s Work/Correspondence/India/FBN 9). A brief overview by Wood of her work is also available (MMS/Special Series/Celebrate Together/Box 1207). |
| Format: |
Archive
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