Elizabeth Chadwick (missionary)

{{Short description|Irish missionary and educator in Uganda and Kenya}}

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(Jane) Elizabeth Chadwick, also known as Lisette Chadwick (1869–1940) was an Irish missionary and educator in Uganda and Kenya.

Life

Elizabeth Chadwick was the daughter of George Chadwick, a Church of Ireland clergyman who later became Bishop of Derry and Raphoe.

Chadwick became a Church Missionary Society missionary, travelling overland with other women missionaries in 1895 from Table Bay, South Africa to Kibwezi, Uganda.{{cite web | title= CMS/ACC167 Accession 167: Papers of Miss Jane Elizabeth Chadwick| website=University of Birmingham | url=https://calmview.bham.ac.uk/Record.aspx?src=Catalog&id=XCMSACC/167 | access-date=19 March 2021 }} As a missionary stationed in Namirembe, Chadwick established the first girls' school in Uganda. From 1916 to 1925 she was a missionary in Butere, Kenya, where she established Butere Girls High School. Some of Chadwick's manuscript memories of her early students have been anthologized.{{cite book|author1=Jane Elizabeth Chadwick|author2=Eva Chadwick|editor2=Fulata Lusungu Moyo|editor3=Mugaybuso M. Mulokozi|editor4=Naomi L. Shitemi|editor=Amandina Lihamba|title=Women Writing Africa: The eastern region|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHSCAAAAIAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Feminist Press at the City University of New York|isbn=978-1-55861-534-2|pages=103–6}}

Her papers are held by the University of Birmingham.

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