| Administrative History | Eleanor Jane Harrison (1871-1930) was accepted by the CMS as a missionary in 1895 and the following year sailed for the Fukien mission in China. She continued her missionary work in China for the next thirty-five years, mainly teaching and itineration work. One of her pupils, Moses Hsieh, converted to Christianity and went on to become ordained and later an Anglican bishop. In 1930 she and her colleague Miss Edith Nettleton were captured by Communist bandits and eventually killed. Six years later a search party was mounted to find their remains which were discovered and returned to the Foochow cemetery for burial.
Reference: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905), and unpublished additions to this register in the CMS archives |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS in July 1980 and transferred to the Special Collections Department in July 2003 |