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1848<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtstart bday">1848-12-02</span>)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen" title="Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a>, Scotland</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">13 January 1915<span style="display:none">(1915-01-13)</span> (aged 66)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Use Ikot Oku, Calabar, <a href="/wiki/Colony_and_Protectorate_of_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria">Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Christian <a href="/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">missionary</a> work in Africa, <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_rights" title="Women's rights">women's rights</a>, and rescuing children from infanticide</td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Monument_to_Mary_Slessor,_Steeple_Church,_Dundee.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Monument_to_Mary_Slessor%2C_Steeple_Church%2C_Dundee.jpg/285px-Monument_to_Mary_Slessor%2C_Steeple_Church%2C_Dundee.jpg" decoding="async" width="285" height="428" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Monument_to_Mary_Slessor%2C_Steeple_Church%2C_Dundee.jpg/428px-Monument_to_Mary_Slessor%2C_Steeple_Church%2C_Dundee.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Monument_to_Mary_Slessor%2C_Steeple_Church%2C_Dundee.jpg/570px-Monument_to_Mary_Slessor%2C_Steeple_Church%2C_Dundee.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2056" data-file-height="3088" /></a><figcaption>Monument to Mary Slessor, Steeple Church, Dundee</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Mary Mitchell Slessor</b> (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterian</a> missionary to <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a>. Once in Nigeria, Slessor... learned <a href="/wiki/Efik_language" title="Efik language">Efik</a>, one of the numerous local languages, then began teaching. Because of her understanding of the native language and her bold personality Slessor gained the trust and acceptance of the locals and was able to spread <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> while promoting women's rights and protecting native children. She is most famous for her role in helping to stop the common practice of <a href="/wiki/Killing_of_twins_in_Nigeria" title="Killing of twins in Nigeria">infanticide of twins</a> in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Okoyong&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Okoyong (page does not exist)">Okoyong</a>, an area of <a href="/wiki/Cross_River_State" title="Cross River State">Cross River State</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lishilinimle_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lishilinimle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Slessor&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mary-slessor.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Mary-slessor.jpg/150px-Mary-slessor.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Mary-slessor.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="217" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption>Mary Slessor</figcaption></figure> <p>Mary Mitchell Slessor was born on 2, December 1848 in <a href="/wiki/Gilcomston_South_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilcomston South Church">Gilcomston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen" title="Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>, to a poor working-class family who could not afford proper education. She was the second of seven children of Robert and Mary Slessor. Her father, originally from <a href="/wiki/Buchan" title="Buchan">Buchan</a>, was a shoemaker by trade. Her mother was born in <a href="/wiki/Oldmeldrum" title="Oldmeldrum">Oldmeldrum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aberdeenshire" title="Aberdeenshire">Aberdeenshire</a>, and was a deeply religious woman.<sup id="cite_ref-livingstone_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-livingstone-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1859, the family moved to <a href="/wiki/Dundee" title="Dundee">Dundee</a> in search of work. Robert Slessor was an alcoholic and, unable to keep up shoemaking, took a job as a labourer in a mill. Her mother was a skilled weaver and went to work in the mills.<sup id="cite_ref-dacb_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dacb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the age of eleven, Mary began work as a "half-timer" in the Baxter Brothers' Mill, meaning she spent half of her day at a school provided by the mill owners and the other half working for the company. </p><p>The Slessors lived in the slums of Dundee. Mary Slessor's father and both brothers died of pneumonia, leaving behind only Mary, her mother, and two sisters.<sup id="cite_ref-dacb_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dacb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By age fourteen, Mary had become a skilled <a href="/wiki/Jute" title="Jute">jute</a> worker at the mill, working from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. with just an hour for breakfast and lunch.<sup id="cite_ref-trinity_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trinity-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her mother was a devout Presbyterian who read each issue of the <i>Missionary Record</i>, a monthly magazine published by the <a href="/wiki/United_Presbyterian_Church_(Scotland)" title="United Presbyterian Church (Scotland)">United Presbyterian Church</a> (later the <a href="/wiki/United_Free_Church_of_Scotland" title="United Free Church of Scotland">United Free Church of Scotland</a>) to inform members of missionary activities and needs.<sup id="cite_ref-dacb_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dacb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Slessor developed an interest in religion, and when a mission was instituted in Quarry Pend (close by the Wishart Church), she wanted to teach.<sup id="cite_ref-trinity_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trinity-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Slessor started her mission at the age of 27, upon hearing that <a href="/wiki/David_Livingstone" title="David Livingstone">David Livingstone</a>, the famous missionary and explorer, had died. She decided then that she wanted to follow in his footsteps. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Missionary_Work">Missionary Work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Slessor&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Missionary Work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eventually, Slessor applied to the Foreign Mission Board of the United Presbyterian Church. After training in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, she set sail in the SS <i>Ethiopia</i> on 5 August 1876 with her cousin Robert Mitchell Beedie, a missionary from <a href="/wiki/New_Deer" title="New Deer">New Deer</a> in Buchan and arrived at her destination in West Africa just over a month later.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Slessor, 28 years of age,<sup id="cite_ref-trinity_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trinity-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was first assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Calabar" title="Calabar">Calabar</a> region in the land of the <a href="/wiki/Efik_people" title="Efik people">Efik people</a>. She was warned that they believed in traditional West African religion and had superstitions about women giving birth to twins. Slessor lived in the missionary compound for three years, working first in the missions in Old Town and Creek Town. She wanted to go deeper into Calabar, but contracted malaria and was forced to return to Scotland to recover, leaving Calabar for Dundee in 1879.<sup id="cite_ref-livingstone_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-livingstone-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After 16 months in Scotland, Slessor returned to Calabar, this time to a new assignment three miles farther into Calabar, in Old Town. Since Slessor assigned a large portion of her salary to support her mother and sisters in Scotland, she economised by eating the native food. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mary-slessor-and-adopted-children.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Mary-slessor-and-adopted-children.jpg/220px-Mary-slessor-and-adopted-children.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Mary-slessor-and-adopted-children.jpg/330px-Mary-slessor-and-adopted-children.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Mary-slessor-and-adopted-children.jpg/440px-Mary-slessor-and-adopted-children.jpg 2x" data-file-width="461" data-file-height="290" /></a><figcaption>Mary Slessor is pictured with adopted children Jean, Alice, Maggie and May, in an image taken in Scotland.</figcaption></figure> <p>Issues Slessor confronted as a young missionary included the lack of Western education, as well as widespread human sacrifice at the death of a village elder, who, it was believed, required servants and retainers to accompany him into the next world.<sup id="cite_ref-quinn_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-quinn-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to biographer W. P. Livingstone, when two deputies went out to inspect the Mission in 1881–82, they were much impressed. They stated, "… she enjoys the unreserved friendship and confidence of the people and has much influence over them". This they attributed partly to the singular ease with which Slessor spoke the language.<sup id="cite_ref-livingstone_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-livingstone-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After only three more years, Slessor returned to Scotland on yet another health furlough. During the next three years, Slessor looked after her mother and sister (who had also fallen ill), and spoke at many churches, sharing stories from the Calabar area. </p><p>Slessor then returned to an area farther away from central Calabar, from the areas which had already eliminated the more <i>heathen</i> practices. She saved hundreds of twins out of the bush, where they had been left either to starve to death or to be eaten by animals. She helped heal the sick and stop the practice of determining guilt by making the suspects drink poison. As a missionary, she went to other tribes, spreading the word of <a href="/wiki/Jesus_Christ" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesus Christ">Jesus Christ</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lishilinimle_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lishilinimle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During this third mission to Calabar, Slessor received news that her mother and sister had died. She was overcome with loneliness, writing, "There is no one to write and tell my stories and nonsense to." She had also found a sense of independence, writing, "Heaven is now nearer to me than Britain, and no one will worry about me if I go up country."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Slessor was a driving force behind the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Hope_Waddell_Training_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Hope Waddell Training Institute">Hope Waddell Training Institute</a> in Calabar, which provided practical vocational training to Efiks. The superstitious threat against twins was not only in Calabar; but also spread to a town called <a href="/wiki/Arochukwu" title="Arochukwu">Arochukwu</a> on the far west of Calabar. The people of Calabar belong to the Efik tribe though the popular Arochukwu town is in the Igbo tribe's region. Both Calabar and Arochukwu share some common cultures and are in southeastern Nigeria, precisely Cross River State and Abia State respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Among_the_Okoyong_and_Efik">Among the Okoyong and Efik</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Slessor&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Among the Okoyong and Efik"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pots_in_which_Twin_Babies_were_Exposed_(imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-016).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Pots_in_which_Twin_Babies_were_Exposed_%28imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-016%29.jpg/220px-Pots_in_which_Twin_Babies_were_Exposed_%28imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-016%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Pots_in_which_Twin_Babies_were_Exposed_%28imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-016%29.jpg/330px-Pots_in_which_Twin_Babies_were_Exposed_%28imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-016%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Pots_in_which_Twin_Babies_were_Exposed_%28imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-016%29.jpg/440px-Pots_in_which_Twin_Babies_were_Exposed_%28imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS2-016%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4880" data-file-height="4914" /></a><figcaption>Pots in which <a href="/wiki/Twins" class="mw-redirect" title="Twins">twin babies</a> were exposed to die (circa 1880)</figcaption></figure> <p>In August 1888, Slessor travelled north to <a href="/wiki/Akpap-Okoyong" class="mw-redirect" title="Akpap-Okoyong">Okoyong</a>, an area where male missionaries had been killed. She thought her teachings, and the fact she was a woman, would be less threatening to unreached tribes. For 15 years, Slessor lived with the Okoyong and the <a href="/wiki/Efik_people" title="Efik people">Efik people</a>. She learned to speak the native <a href="/wiki/Efik_language" title="Efik language">Efik language</a>, and made close personal friendships wherever she went, becoming known for her pragmatism and humour. Slessor lived a simple life in a traditional house with Efiks. Her insistence on lone stations often led her into conflict with the authorities and gained her a reputation for eccentricity. However, her exploits were heralded in Britain, and she became known as the "white queen of Okoyong". Slessor continued her focus on evangelism, settling disputes, encouraging trade, establishing social changes and introducing Western education. </p><p>It was the belief in the area that the birth of twins was considered a particularly evil curse. Natives feared that the father of one of the infants was a 'devil child', and that the mother had been guilty of a great sin. Unable to determine which twin was fathered by the evil spirit, the natives often abandoned both babies <a href="/wiki/Infant_exposure" title="Infant exposure">in clay pots to die</a>. In most of Calabar the practice had been eliminated by the Missionaries and King <a href="/wiki/Eyo_Honesty_II" title="Eyo Honesty II">Eyo Honesty II</a>. Slessor left the area of Calabar and moved further in to Okoyong. She adopted every child she found abandoned, and sent out twins' missioners to find, protect and care for them at the Mission House. Some mission compounds were alive with babies.<sup id="cite_ref-Lishilinimle_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lishilinimle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-livingstone_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-livingstone-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Slessor once saved a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, but the boy did not survive. Mary took the girl as her daughter and called her Janie. She took Janie home to Scotland with her on at least one visit. </p><p>In 1892, Slessor became <a href="/wiki/Vice-consul" class="mw-redirect" title="Vice-consul">vice-consul</a> in Okoyong, presiding over the native court. In 1905 she was named vice-president of Ikot Obong native court. In 1913, she was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Saint_John_(chartered_1888)" title="Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)">Order of St John</a>. Slessor's health began to suffer in her later years, but she remained in Calabar, where she died in 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-eul_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eul-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Slessor&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mary_Slessor_Grave_Calabar_Nigeria_11.81_edited-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Mary_Slessor_Grave_Calabar_Nigeria_11.81_edited-2.jpg/220px-Mary_Slessor_Grave_Calabar_Nigeria_11.81_edited-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Mary_Slessor_Grave_Calabar_Nigeria_11.81_edited-2.jpg/330px-Mary_Slessor_Grave_Calabar_Nigeria_11.81_edited-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Mary_Slessor_Grave_Calabar_Nigeria_11.81_edited-2.jpg/440px-Mary_Slessor_Grave_Calabar_Nigeria_11.81_edited-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1372" /></a><figcaption>Memorial plaque on Mary Slessor's grave at Calabar, eastern Nigeria, in 1981</figcaption></figure> <p>For the last four decades of her life, Slessor suffered intermittent fevers from the malaria she contracted during her first station to Calabar. However, she downplayed the personal costs, and never gave up her mission work to return permanently to Scotland. The fevers eventually weakened Slessor to the point she could no longer walk long distances in the rainforest but had to be pushed along in a handcart. In early January 1915, while at her remote station near Use Ikot Oku, she suffered a particularly severe fever. Slessor died on 13 January 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-DailyRecord_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DailyRecord-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her body was transported down the <a href="/wiki/Cross_River_(Nigeria)" title="Cross River (Nigeria)">Cross River</a> to <a href="/wiki/Akwa_Akpa" class="mw-redirect" title="Akwa Akpa">Duke Town</a> for the colonial equivalent of a state funeral. A Union Jack covered her coffin. Attendees included the provincial commissioner, along with other senior British officials in full uniform. Flags at government buildings were flown at half-mast. Nigeria's Governor-General, <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Lugard,_1st_Baron_Lugard" title="Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard">Sir Frederick Lugard</a>, telegraphed his "deepest regrets" from Lagos and published a warm <a href="/wiki/Eulogy" title="Eulogy">eulogy</a> in the <a href="/wiki/The_Nigeria_Gazette" title="The Nigeria Gazette">government gazette</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ServingGod_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ServingGod-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A report on her death in <i>The Southern Reporter</i> of 21 January 1915 mentions a time she spent on furlough in Bowden, Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders. It states that "She and her four adopted African children were a centre of great attraction and helped to deepen the interest of the whole community in the Foreign Mission work of the Church." It praises her strong force character, her unostentatious manner, and her zeal for the tribes around Calabar.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_legacy">Honours and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Slessor&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Honours and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Slessor's work in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Okoyong&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Okoyong (page does not exist)">Okoyong</a> earned her the Efik nickname of "Obongawan Okoyong" (Queen of Okoyong). This name is still used commonly to refer to her in Calabar. </p><p>Several memorials in and around the Efik provinces of Calabar and Okoyong testify to the value placed on her work. Some of these include: </p> <ul><li>a high school named in honour of Slessor in <a href="/wiki/Arochukwu" title="Arochukwu">Arochukwu</a></li> <li>Mary Slessor Road in Calabar</li> <li>Mary Slessor Roundabout</li> <li>Mary Slessor Street in Coventry</li> <li>Mary Slessor Church</li> <li>Statues of her (usually carrying twins) at various locations in Calabar</li></ul> <p>A female hostel in the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nigeria_Nsukka" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Nigeria Nsukka">University of Nigeria Nsukka</a> is named Mary Slessor Hall in her honour. </p><p>A girls' house, "Slessor House", was named after her in <a href="/wiki/Achimota_School" title="Achimota School">Achimota School</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ghana" title="Ghana">Ghana</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Scotland, a bust of Slessor is now in the Hall of Heroes of the <a href="/wiki/National_Wallace_Monument" class="mw-redirect" title="National Wallace Monument">National Wallace Monument</a> in <a href="/wiki/Stirling" title="Stirling">Stirling</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen" title="Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a> a memorial used to stand in the city's Union Terrace Gardens prior to their redevelopment in 2024. In <a href="/wiki/Dundee" title="Dundee">Dundee</a>, a new city centre park is named 'Slessor Gardens' in her honour. There are also streets named after her in Glasgow, Dundee and Oldmeldrum in Scotland, and in Coventry in England. </p><p>Slessor was honoured on a <a href="/wiki/Clydesdale_Bank#Commemorative_banknotes" title="Clydesdale Bank">1997 bank note</a> by <a href="/wiki/Clydesdale_Bank" title="Clydesdale Bank">Clydesdale Bank</a> for the World Heritage Series and Famous Scots Series.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was featured on the back of the bank's £10 note, highlighting her work in Calabar. The note also features a map of Calabar, a lithographic vignette depicting her work with children, and a sailing ship emblem.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/List_of_minor_planets:_4001%E2%80%935000" title="List of minor planets: 4001–5000">Main-belt asteroid 4793 Slessor</a> (1988 RR4)<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> named to mark her centenary celebrations on 13 January 2015. </p><p>In 1950, the anthropologist <a href="/wiki/Charles_Partridge_(anthropologist)" title="Charles Partridge (anthropologist)">Charles Partridge</a>, a friend of Slessor when both were in Nigeria, donated letters from her, along with a recording of her voice, now The Slessor Collection at Dundee Central Library;<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he said of her: "She was a very remarkable woman. I look back on her friendship with reverence- one of the greatest honours that have befallen me."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mary Slessor is <a href="/wiki/Calendar_of_saints_(Church_of_England)" title="Calendar of saints (Church of England)">remembered</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Commemoration_(observance)" class="mw-redirect" title="Commemoration (observance)">commemoration</a> on <a href="/wiki/January_11" title="January 11">11 January</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Slessor&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_female_adventurers" class="mw-redirect" title="List of female adventurers">List of female adventurers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_on_banknotes#Scotland" title="List of people on banknotes">People on Scottish banknotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_twins_in_Nigeria" title="Killing of twins in Nigeria">Killing of twins in Nigeria</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Slessor&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248256098">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historymakers.info/inspirational-christians/mary-slessor.html">"Mary Slessor"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Mary+Slessor&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historymakers.info%2Finspirational-christians%2Fmary-slessor.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+Slessor" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Lishilinimle-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Lishilinimle_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lishilinimle_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lishilinimle_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFImbua2013" class="citation journal cs1">Imbua, David Lishilinimle (2013). 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">27 March</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Church+of+England&rft.atitle=The+Calendar&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.churchofengland.org%2Fprayer-and-worship%2Fworship-texts-and-resources%2Fcommon-worship%2Fchurchs-year%2Fcalendar&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+Slessor" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Slessor&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Slessor&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Benge, Janet & Geoff (c. 1999) <i>Mary Slessor: Forward Into Calabar</i>. YWAM Publishing. 205 pp. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57658-148-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-57658-148-9">1-57658-148-9</a>.</li> <li>Bueltmann, A. J. <i>White Queen of the Cannibals: The Story of Mary Slessor</i>. Moody Press, Chicago.</li> <li>Gruffydd, Gan Ceridwen <i>Brenhines Y Diffeithwch (Mary Slessor)</i> Llundain, in Welsh, 1926.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHardage2010" class="citation cs2">Hardage, Jeanette (2010), <i>Mary Slessor Everybody's Mother</i>, Lutterworth Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7188-9185-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7188-9185-5"><bdi>978-0-7188-9185-5</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mary+Slessor+Everybody%27s+Mother&rft.pub=Lutterworth+Press&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-7188-9185-5&rft.aulast=Hardage&rft.aufirst=Jeanette&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+Slessor" class="Z3988"></span>.</li> <li>Mcfarlan, Donald (1961). <i>White Queen: The Story of Mary Slessor</i>. Lutterworth Press.</li> <li>Purves, Carol. <i>From Jute to Jungle: The Mary Slessor Story</i>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-291-75378-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-291-75378-3">978-1-291-75378-3</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRobertson2008" class="citation cs2">Robertson, Elizabeth (2008), <i>Mary Slessor: The Barefoot Missionary</i> (revised ed.), Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-90166350-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-90166350-1"><bdi>978-1-90166350-1</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mary+Slessor%3A+The+Barefoot+Missionary&rft.place=Edinburgh&rft.edition=revised&rft.pub=NMS+Enterprises&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-1-90166350-1&rft.aulast=Robertson&rft.aufirst=Elizabeth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+Slessor" class="Z3988"></span>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Booklet">Booklet</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_Slessor&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Booklet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Rev. J. Harrison Hudson, Rev. Thomas W. Jarvie, Rev. Jock Stein. <i>"Let the Fire Burn" – A Study of R. M. McCheyne, Robert Annan and Mary Slessor</i>. Out-of-print booklet, 1978, Handsel Publications (formerly of Dundee), now Handsel Press. 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Becker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Bill" title="Samuel Bill">Samuel Bill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Booth_(missionary)" title="Joseph Booth (missionary)">Joseph Booth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Coker" title="Daniel Coker">Daniel Coker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Kumler_Flickinger" title="Daniel Kumler Flickinger">Daniel Kumler Flickinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Jackson_Fuller" title="Joseph Jackson Fuller">Joseph Jackson Fuller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Grenfell" title="George Grenfell">George Grenfell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Hugo_Hahn" title="Carl Hugo Hahn">Carl Hugo Hahn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hardcastle_(1752%E2%80%931818)" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Hardcastle (1752–1818)">Joseph Hardcastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Crane_Hartzell" title="Joseph Crane Hartzell">Joseph Crane Hartzell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Ittmann" title="Johannes Ittmann">Johannes Ittmann</a></li> <li><a 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of Commissioners for Foreign Missions">American Board</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Africa_Inland_Mission" title="Africa Inland Mission">Africa Inland Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Baptist_Missionary_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian Baptist Missionary Society">Australian Baptist Missionary Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berlin_Missionary_Society" title="Berlin Missionary Society">Berlin Missionary Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bethel_Mission,_German_East_Africa" title="Bethel Mission, German East Africa">Bethel Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BMS_World_Mission" title="BMS World Mission">BMS World Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congo-Balolo_Mission" title="Congo-Balolo Mission">Congo-Balolo Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_and_Missionary_Alliance" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian and Missionary Alliance">Christian and Missionary Alliance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_Mission_Society" title="Church Mission Society">Church Mission Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Echoes_of_Service" title="Echoes of Service">Echoes of Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_Missionary_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish Missionary Society">Finnish Missionary Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livingstone_Inland_Mission" title="Livingstone Inland Mission">Livingstone Inland Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_Missionary_Society" title="London Missionary Society">London Missionary Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mission_Africa" title="Mission Africa">Mission Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mission_to_the_World" title="Mission to the World">Mission to the World</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paris_Evangelical_Missionary_Society" title="Paris Evangelical Missionary Society">Paris Evangelical Missionary Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhenish_Missionary_Society" title="Rhenish Missionary Society">Rhenish Missionary Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SIM_(Christian_organization)" 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