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Sophia Blackmore (18 October 1857 – 3 July 1945) was an Australian Christian missionary. [1] She founded the Fairfield Methodist Schools , and also Methodist Girls' School [ 2 ] in Singapore . She was the first unmarried woman missionary sent by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Singapore . [ 3 ]
Sophia Blackmore, a 32-year-old Australian missionary from the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society, [4] had just established her first school in Singapore. Meanwhile, several influential Chinese families were persuading her to teach their daughters. [5] [6] A widow later offered Blackmore her home along Cross Street for teaching. [1]
Methodist Girls' School was founded on 15 August 1887 by Sophia Blackmore, an Australian missionary sent by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America. The school started with 9 Tamil girls in a small shophouse on Short Street [ citation needed ] .
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Founded as a church in 1894, Kampong Kapor Methodist Church began its activities in November 1890, in the lower room of the Deaconess Home. Upon request, Miss Sophia Blackmore, [5] a missionary to Singapore (and also the founder of the Fairfield Methodist Schools and the Methodist Girls' School) [6] [7] started a Sunday Malay language worship service.
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