{{Expand Swedish, topic=bio, date=February 2022 Elizabeth Renner (died 1826) was an African missionary teacher.Fiona Leach
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Brill, 2019, p. 239. Elizabeth Renner was a Nova Scotia Settler. She emigrated from Nova Scotia to

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, Sierra Leone, in 1792. In 1804, she became the housekeeper of the Melchior Renner of

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, who was one of the first three missionaries sent to Africa and Freetown by the British Anglican Church Mission Society (CMS) that same year. In 1808, she married Melchior Renner. She managed the missionary Bashia School for girls in 1808–1818. She was the first female teacher and principal of a girls' school in the missionary in Africa. Her school had many students from the elite Euro-African families of the region. One of her students were

Elizabeth Frazer Skelton Elizabeth Frazer Skelton also called "Mammy Skelton" (1800–1855) was a Euro-African slave trader.Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Dictionary of African Biography, Volym 1–6' Life She was the daughter of the slave trader John Frazer of Scotland (176 ...

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