Mabel Shaw | |
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| Born | 3 December 1888 |
| Died | 25 April 1973 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | St Colm's College |
| Occupation | missionary |
| Employer | London Missionary Society |
Mabel Shaw OBE (1889-1973) was an English missionary and educator in Northern Rhodesia. In her time "she was the most renowned missionary in Africa". [1]
Shaw was born in 1889 in Wolverhampton. She was the first born child of Elizabeth Anne, born Purchase and Matthew Shaw who would have four more children. Her father managed a tea-shop. When she was five she went to live with her grandmother and when she was ten she went to boarding school where she adopted her life long faith in Christianity. [2]
She was trained over four years as a missionary in Edinburgh at Ann Hunter Small's Women's Missionary Training College. [2]
Shaw founded the Mbereshi Girls' School, a mission boarding school at Mbereshi which was the first girls' school in Northern Rhodesia. She served as its Principal until 1940. [3]
Her papers are held at the School of Oriental and African Studies. [4]
She died in 1972 in Guildford when she was poor and no longer well known. [2] Her admirers and mourners in Africa raised money to have her remains returned to Zambia. [5]
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