Alice Marval

Alice Marval in a window of "Noble Women" in Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.
Dr Alice Marval depicted in the right panel on Dove Window in All Saints' High Wycombe

Alice Marietta Marval (26 January 1865 – 4 January 1904) popularly known as Dr Alice Marval of Cawnpore, was an English doctor and nurse who served the patients suffering from Plague during an epidemic in Cawnpore (presently Kanpur, India).[1]

Life

Marval qualified as a doctor from London when she was only 36. She was sent to Cawnpore from England in 1899 under the SPG Mission (now United Society).[2] She died in 1904 serving plague patients and was buried at Subedar Ka Talao Cemetery (now Christians Graveyard) in Cawnpore.[3] Marval founded the first nursing school for women in India in St Catherine Hospital which still serves the poor and weaker section of society in Kanpur.[4][5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Yalland, Z. (1994). Boxwallahs: The British in Cawnpore, 1857-1901. M. Russell. ISBN 9780859552066. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  2. ↑ "Discuss Theology » Alice Marval [1865-1904] died ministering to plague victims, complementarian? who knows". discusstheology.com. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  3. ↑ "Collective Biographies of Women". cbw.iath.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  4. ↑ Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain) (1916). Mission Field: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. 61. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  5. ↑ Cotton, V.E. (1924). The book of Liverpool Cathedral. Published for the Liverpool Cathedral Committee [by] Liverpool University Press. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  6. ↑ "Muskogee Daily Phoenix (Muskogee, Oklahoma), Vol. 10, No. 174, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 16, 1911, Sequence: 12 | The Gateway to Oklahoma History". gateway.okhistory.org. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  7. ↑ "St. Catherine's Hospital". stcatherineshospital.org.in. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
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