| Order number: |
MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/Box 1412
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| Summary: |
Material collected by Dr Mary Roll (née Tomlinson) relating principally to Ikkādu Hospital, India.
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| Extent: |
1 folder
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| Admin history: |
Mary Alice Tomlinson was born on 25 August 1899 into a poor Lancastrian Methodist mining family. She studied until the age of 13 at the St Paul's Girls School, Wigan, Lancashire. Through her teenage years she worked at the local colliery and then a cotton mill whilst studying in the evenings, despite bouts of poor health. It was during this period that Tomlinson became interested in medical missionary work in India and contacted the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society who advised her to seek professional qualifications. Around the age of twenty she began training as a nurse working at Walsall Day Nursery for a year and then at Ancoats Hospital in Manchester from June 1921 until September 1922. She left Ancoats Hospital to pursue a career as doctor studying privately to matriculate and be able to undertake medical training at the University of Birmingham. By December 1929 she had passed her MBChB, MRCS & LRCS and was employed as a house surgeon at Birmingham Children's Hospital from January to June 1930. She was also accepted as a candidate for the women's section of the WMMS.
Tomlinson had arrived in the WMMS Madras District by November 1930 and was appointed to work initially at Ikkādu Hospital but in late 1931 was transferred to the Kalyani Hospital in Mylapore. By the summer of 1933 she had returned to Ikkādu Hospital and remained there (baring a furlough in 1936) until she left the WMMS to marry in 1941. Her marriage, to a Mr Rolls, a leather merchant, took place at the American Lutheran Missionary Church at Ranipet on Easter Day, 1941. She returned to England during the summer of 1945 but shortly after began new medical work overseas at the Aga Khan Clinic, Mombasa, Kenya. She left in 1949 to care for her sick mother-in-law in England and took up a post as a general praticoner in Gorleston, Norfolk. She retired in 1969 but remained in the area until her death on 28 September 2000. |
Mary Alice Tomlinson was born on 25 August 1899 into a poor Lancastrian Methodist mining family. She studied until the age of 13 at the St Paul's Girls School, Wigan, Lancashire. Through her teenage years she worked at the local colliery and then a cotton mill whilst studying in the evenings, despite bouts of poor health. It was during this period that Tomlinson became interested in medical missionary work in India and contacted the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society who advised her to seek professional qualifications. Around the age of ... View more |
| Custodial history: |
Gift from Joyce Micklethwaite, niece of Mary Roll, to the Methodist Church, October 2000 |
| Acquisition: |
Deposited by the Methodist Church at SOAS, November 2000
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| Arrangement: |
This collection has been arranged into four sections: history of Ikkādu Hospital; correspondence; 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
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| Scripts: |
Latin
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| Related material: |
Any extant correspondence by Dr Mary Roll will be in the Women's Work Madras District correspondence (MMS/Women’s Work/Correspondence/India/FBN 17-18) |
| Format: |
Archive
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