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Sophia Blackmore. 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 ...
Methodist Girls' School (MGS) is an independent Methodist girls' school in Bukit Timah, Singapore, founded in 1887 by Australian missionary Sophia Blackmore [citation needed]. It offers a six-year primary education in its primary school section and a four-year secondary education in its secondary school section.
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.
Methodist Boys' School (Penang) Methodist Girls' School (Penang) Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Methodist, Air Tawar; Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Methodist, Ipoh; Anglo Chinese School, Kampar; Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Methodist, Parit Buntar; Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Methodist, Sungai Siput; Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Methodist, Tanjong Malim
Methodist Girls' School may refer to: Methodist Girls' School, Ipoh, Malaysia; Methodist Girls' School, Singapore; Methodist Girls' High School (Lagos), Nigeria;
The gem that would become the Methodist Girls' School, Penang, began in the home of Cheah Tek Soon. Reverend Daniel D. Moore expanded the Methodist Mission to Penang when he went over there, from Singapore, in 1891. [22] Without wasting time, Moore set out to visit wealthy Chinese homes in order to become acquainted with prominent Chinese citizens.
Miss Sophia Blackmore (1857-1945) was the first woman missionary sent by the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society to work in Singapore. She help found the Methodist Girls' School in August 1887 [ 5 ] and the Fairfield Methodist Schools in 1888.
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.