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Irene Eleanora Verita Petrie (October 1864 – 6 August 1897) was a
accessed 18 June 2017
/ref> She was educated at home and then attended Notting Hill High School for GirlsOxford Dictionary of National Biography before taking the Cambridge Higher examination. She was presented at court in 1885. She decided to be a missionary in India, but her father was concerned for her health. He died in 1892 and her sister encouraged her to fulfil her ambition. The
She taught children and visited Indian women in their own homes. The British had built three churches and Petrie found that she preferred the service in Urdu at one church to the one delivered in English. At the Kashmir mission she lodged with the newly married Blanche and Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe.
Petrie died in
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missionary who died in Kashmir
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on the Indian subcontinent
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in 1897.
Life
Petrie was born in Kensington Park in October 1864, but the exact date is not known. Her parents were Eleanor andMartin Petrie
Martin Petrie (1823–1892) was an English army officer and writer. Petrie, his wife and his daughter Mary Petrie were involved in the foundation of Westfield College. His other daughter Irene Petrie died as a missionary in Kashmir.
Life
He was ...
. Her father was a Colonel in the army.Jeffrey Cox, ‘Petrie, Irene Eleanora Verita (1864–1897)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 18 June 2017
/ref> She was educated at home and then attended Notting Hill High School for GirlsOxford Dictionary of National Biography before taking the Cambridge Higher examination. She was presented at court in 1885. She decided to be a missionary in India, but her father was concerned for her health. He died in 1892 and her sister encouraged her to fulfil her ambition. The
Church Missionary Society
The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly known as the Church Missionary Society, is a British Anglican mission society working with Christians around the world. Founded in 1799, CMS has attracted over nine thousand men and women to serve as ...
trained her in Stoke Newington
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and she was bound for Lahore
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in October 1893. She was initially a volunteer at Saint Hilda's Diocesan Home which cared for the Christian poor. The following year, she moved to the CMS's Kashmir mission in Srinagar
Srinagar (; ) is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the tertiary ...
, where she improved her language skills. In 1895 she was sent back to England to rally support for their work. She was accepted as a full missionary and returned to Srinagar.
She taught children and visited Indian women in their own homes. The British had built three churches and Petrie found that she preferred the service in Urdu at one church to the one delivered in English. At the Kashmir mission she lodged with the newly married Blanche and Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe.
Petrie died in Leh
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in 1897 from a fever. Her sister, Mary L. G. Carus-Wilson, wrote her biography which went to several editions.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Petrie, Irene 1864 births 1897 deaths People from Kensington People educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School English Protestant missionaries Protestant missionaries in India Female Christian missionaries