| Administrative History | Dorothy Florence Pole was born in England, 22 February 1892, the middle daughter of Florence Mary Pole née Sharp (d 1941) and George Henry Pole (c 1850-1929) CMS missionary in Japan 1881-1898, and sister to Lily and Constance. Dorothy began working under the CMS Egypt mission in 1918. Initially based in Cairo, from 1919-1927 she was based at Omdurman in present-day Sudan. In 1930 she transferred to the CMS Sierra Leone mission where she was appointed Principal of the Annie Walsh Girls' School in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In 1936 she became Sierra Leone mission secretary. She retired from full service in 1954 but returned to Sierra Leone to work as a retired missionary. She died in England in 1981.
Awards:
1950: MBE in recognition of her long and distinguished missionary career.
Reference: Register of women missionaries 1915-1918 (manuscript unpublished) |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS in November 1982 and transferred to the University of Birmingham in July 2003. |