Blanche Brenton Carey
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Blanche Louisa Mary Boleyn Brenton Carey (1856 - 1950) was a Church of England Zenana Mission Society (CEZMS) pioneer missionary to Karachi (1885 to 1950). Blanche Brenton Carey's ministry in Karachi spanned a number of cataclysmic world and national events: plague epidemics, World War I, The Great Depression, political unrest, World War II and the Partition of India and the new state of Pakistan. When Blanche Brenton Carey first arrived in Karachi in 1885 there was one school of fifteen girl pupils, this grew over time to be nine schools with about 900 girl students, an orphanage, a Teacher Training College, and a Widows' Industrial Class. The schools used different languages spoken at the time in Karachi, Gujarati, Sindhi, and Arabic.
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Blanche Brenton Carey
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Blanche Louisa Mary Boleyn Brenton Carey
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Blanche Louisa Mary Boleyn Brenton Carey
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1950-05-25
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Our Miss Carey of Karachi
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Harriet Mary Brenton
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Rev. Adolphus Frederick Carey
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Kaisar-i-Hind Silver medal
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Blanche Louisa Mary Boleyn Brenton Carey (1856 - 1950) was a Church of England Zenana Mission Society (CEZMS) pioneer missionary to Karachi (1885 to 1950). Blanche Brenton Carey's ministry in Karachi spanned a number of cataclysmic world and national events: plague epidemics, World War I, The Great Depression, political unrest, World War II and the Partition of India and the new state of Pakistan. When Blanche Brenton Carey first arrived in Karachi in 1885 there was one school of fifteen girl pupils, this grew over time to be nine schools with about 900 girl students, an orphanage, a Teacher Training College, and a Widows' Industrial Class. The schools used different languages spoken at the time in Karachi, Gujarati, Sindhi, and Arabic. Blanche Brenton Carey was known for her love and support for the women of Sindh and her great zeal for evangelism. Blanche Brenton Carey visited the villages outside of Karachi often travelling many miles by railway and then camel.
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Kaisar-i-Hind Silver medal