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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]
By 1925 the school was overcrowded, which precipitated a move to Mount Sophia, where it remained there until 1992 before being moved to its current location at Blackmore Drive [citation needed]. The secondary school section of Methodist Girls' School became an independent school in January 1989. In 1992, MGS moved to a new site at 11 Blackmore ...
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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.
Sophia Blackmore (1857–1945), Australian missionary; Stephen Blackmore (born 1952), British botanist; Steve Blackmore (born 1962), Welsh rugby union player; Susan Blackmore (born 1951), British parapsychologist, writer, and lecturer; Thomas Blackmore (fl. 1659–1652), English politician; William Blackmore (minister) (died 1684), English ...
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William was born in Bangalore, India, the son of an Irish couple, James and Mary Elizabeth Oldham. [1] James was a British officer commanding Sepoy troops in India.William's ancestry was primarily Anglo-Irish, with some Indian blood, it was said, on his mother's side.