Dr Mary Alice Roll papers

Material collected by Dr Mary Roll (née Tomlinson) relating principally to Ikkādu Hospital, India.

Archive & Special Collections MMS/17/02/06/26 Open

Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/Box 1412
Date(s) of creation: 1929-2000
Level: Sub-series
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/Box 1412
callnumber MMS/17/02/06/26
callnumber_txt MMS/17/02/06/26
callnumber-sort MMS/17/02/06/26
prefix_number 26
title Dr Mary Alice Roll papers
scb_date_creation 1929-2000
scb_level Sub-series
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 1 folder
format Archive
scb_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.
scb_custodial_history Gift from Joyce Micklethwaite, niece of Mary Roll, to the Methodist Church, October 2000
scb_acquisition Deposited by the Methodist Church at SOAS, November 2000
description Material collected by Dr Mary Roll (née Tomlinson) relating principally to Ikkādu Hospital, India.
scb_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.
scb_related_name_code GB/SOASNAF/P1867
scb_place_code 1466052
1269750
7729895
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Various copyrights
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
language English
language_search English
scb_scripts_material Latin
scb_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)
hierarchy_top_id_raw MMS
hierarchy_sequence MMS.0017.0002.0006.0026

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