| Description | This collection comprises correspondence, journal of 'India football tour' 1906, obituary notices, reports of Bannu Mission and various small artefacts relating to Dr Theodore Leighton Pennell and his work as medical missionary in North India. The papers of his wife, Alice Maud Pennell include letters and other documents relating to the future plans for the work at Bannu after her husband's death in 1912, drafts of articles about the medical work carried out and cuttings taken from periodicals relating to Dr Pennell's work in Bannu. Other miscellaneous papers include items relating to ancestors of Dr Pennell. |
| Administrative History | Theodore Leighton Pennell (1867-1912) was accepted by CMS as an Honorary Medical Missionary and after qualifying F.R.C.S. in 1892 was sent to a post in the Punjab and Sindh mission, later taking up a post in the hospital at Bannu. In 1908 he married Alice Maude Sorabji (d 1957) M.B., B.S, Lond. In 1912 he died but his wife continued their work in Bannu until her resignation in 1925.
References: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905) and Register of missionaries additional List I 1804-1892 |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS in April 1977 and transferred to the Special Collections Department in July 2003 |