| Administrative History | Peter Sturrock Sturrock (No. 1447 List I) was born in Edinburgh, studied at Merton College Oxford and Gonville and Caius College Cambridge and qualifying as a doctor in 1896. He was accepted by CMS as a medical missionary and left England for Baghdad, then part of the Turkish Arabia Mission. In 1901 he married Ada Edith Clark, also a CMS missionary in Baghdad (No. 507 List II). The couple resigned their posts in 1901 and returned to England.
Reference: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905) |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS in September 1987 and transferred to the Special Collections Department in July 2003 |