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Sophia Blackmore. Sophia Blackmore (18 October 1857 – 3 July 1945) was an Australian Christian missionary. She founded the Fairfield Methodist Schools, and also Methodist Girls' School in Singapore. She was the first unmarried woman missionary sent by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Singapore.
Mar 11, 2021 · Sophia Blackmore. Founder of Methodist Girls’ School. Sophia Blackmore was born on 18 October 1857 to a devout Christian family in Goulburn, New South Wales. In her late 20s, influenced by a visiting American missionary, Sophia went to India with the intention of serving as a missionary in China.
Sophia Blackmore (b. 18 October 1857, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia–d. 3 July 1945, Australia) was the first woman missionary sent by the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society to work in Singapore.1 During her stay in Singapore from 1887 to 1928, she helped to found two Methodist schools for girls: Methodist Girls' School and Fairf...
Dec 26, 2003 · The women of Minneapolis appropriated US$3,000 to open women’s work in Malaysia, but the money really came from Mrs Nind herself, and Sophia Blackmore’s ministry to this part of the world was assured.
Jan 4, 2018 · Sophia Blackmore. Another missionary society that left a deep impact on Singapore was the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS; see text box below) of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America. More familiar is the name Sophia Blackmore, its most well-known missionary in Singapore.
1857 - 1945. Missionary and pioneer of education for girls in Singapore. Methodist. Singapore. Sophia Blackmore was born on October 18, 1857 in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. She was one of eight children in a devout Christian family that had migrated from London in the 1850s.
Oct 10, 2008 · Sophia Blackmore (b. 18 October 1857, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia–d. 3 July 1945, Australia) was the first woman missionary sent by the Methodist Women's Foreign Missionary Society to work in Singapore.
