Sophia Blackmore was an Australian Christian missionary. She founded the Fairfield Methodist Schools, and also Methodist Girls' School in Singapore. She was the first unmarried woman missionary sent by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Singapore. She also set up a boarding home for girls, supported the early Methodist Straits Chinese Christian work, published a Christian periodical in Baba Malay, and is closely associated with the founding of Kampong Kapor Methodist Church.

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Occupation: missionary
Citizenship: Australia
Born: October 18, 1857
Died: July 3, 1945

Australiacountry of citizenship

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Occupation: missionary
Citizenship: Australia
Born: October 18, 1857
Died: July 3, 1945

Australiacountry of citizenship