Lorna Louisa Wood photoraph albums and memoir

Two photograph albums and a very brief memoir on her missionary work in Bengal, India.


Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/Box 1412
Date(s) of creation: 1943-2003
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           
Main author: Wood; Lorna Louisa (1908-2005); educational missionary

Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/Box 1412
Summary: Two photograph albums and a very brief memoir on her missionary work in Bengal, India.
Main author: Wood; Lorna Louisa (1908-2005); educational missionary
Extent: 3 items
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 19 ... View more
Custodial history: Gift to the Methodist Church from Mrs B Haime, June 2005
Acquisition: Deposited with SOAS Archives, July 2008
Arrangement: Listed in chronological order
Access status: Open
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
Scripts: Latin
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