(Jane) Elizabeth Chadwick, also known as Lisette Chadwick (1869–1940) was an Irish missionary and educator in Uganda and Kenya.

Life

Elizabeth Chadwick was the daughter of George Chadwick, a Church of Ireland clergyman who later became Bishop of Derry and Raphoe.

Elizabeth Chadwick (missionary)

Chadwick became a Church Missionary Society missionary, travelling overland with other women missionaries in 1895 from Table Bay, South Africa to Kibwezi, Uganda. As a missionary stationed in Namirembe, Chadwick established the first girls' school in Uganda. From 1916 to 1925 she was a missionary in Butere, Kenya, where she established Butere Girls High School. Some of Chadwick's manuscript memories of her early students have been anthologized.

Elizabeth Chadwick (missionary)

Her papers are held by the University of Birmingham.

Elizabeth Chadwick (missionary)

References

1869 births

1940 deaths

Irish Anglican missionaries

Church Mission Society missionaries

Anglican missionaries in Uganda

Anglican missionaries in Kenya