Elizabeth Chadwick was the daughter of
George Chadwick, a
Church of Ireland clergyman who later became
Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. 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. Her papers are held by the
University of Birmingham. ==References==