Sabin, Margaret Katherine

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380320
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: Sabin, Margaret Katherine
Date(s)	: Created 1919-1962
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 5 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Sabin | Margaret Katherine | 1887-1978 | missionary

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Margaret Katherine Sabin was born on 17 Apr 1887. She was educated at Camden School, with a scholarship of three years to the North London Collegiate School. From 1913-1914, she undertook a training course at Westhill, Selly Oak. She was a member of the Church at Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, North London, and its associated Mission at Kentish Town. In 1919, she accompanied her sister on a two-year visit to China, where she observed the work of the London Missionary Society. In 1922, she returned by way of South Africa, and spent a few months at Hope Fountain. In 1926, she was appointed as an educational missionary with the London Missionary Society, and posted to Mbereshi, Northern Rhodesia. She remained in Mbereshi until 1948, assisting Mabel Shaw (founder of the Livingstone Memorial School) in building up the girl's boarding school and home. She died in 1978.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1919-1962, of Margaret Katherine Sabin, including notes, letters and photographs. Letters include those written to her family (1919-1950), describing work at the school and mission station in Mbereshi. Also includes photographs of Mbereshi.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The material has been arranged into the following sections: correspondence of Margaret Sabin; correspondence of Janet Bryson; correspondence of Mary Livingstone; other manuscript materials; East Africa Tour 1950. Correspondence has been arranged chronologically.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1981.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the papers of Mabel Shaw (Ref: MS 380319) relating to Mbereshi, and the records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS).

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Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
15 May 2000