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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 [ 6 ] and the Fairfield Methodist Schools in 1888.
Two memorial services are planned for Sophia, both in El Dorado Hills: one at 3 p.m. Friday at Holy Trinity Parish, and a celebration of life at 1 p.m. Saturday at District Church.
An educator and politician, she founded the Siglap Girls' Club for the benefit of underprivileged girls, and pushed for gender equality as a member of the Legislative Assembly. [138] Sophia Blackmore (1857–1927) 2014 Education Founder of Methodist Girls’ School. [139] Sophia Pang (1972–) 2014 Adventurers & explorers
Our friendship with Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia is still going strong, 30 years after the finale of The Golden Girls premiered on May 9, 1992.. The final show was a huge event, with ratings ...