Van Warmelo.

Submitted by atom on Sat, 20/06/2020 - 03:25
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ZA TAB #_#_2334_#
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National Archives Repository (Public Records of former Transvaal Province and its predecessors as well as of magistrates and local authorities)
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National Registers of Manuscripts and Photographs (NAREM and NAREF) National Archives' cartographic and library material, microfilms and copies
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Donor: Dr. RDA Douglas, 1944; 6f; 1 vol.
Jane Elizabeth Waterston (1843-1932), missionary of the Free Church of Scotland, medical doctor. She was the first woman superintendent of Lovedale girls' school, 1867-1873. In 1873 she went to Europe to study medicine and qualified in Ireland in 1879. Waterston left Lovedale to practise in Cape Town in 1883. In 1925 the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland awarded her a fellowship and in 1929 the University of Cape Town conferred on her honorary LLD.
-- Address to Waterston from Lovedale Missionary Institute, 1883; certificate granted by the Medico Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland, 1888; testimonial by Sir Bisset Berry, 1906; certificate of fellowship granted by Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 1925; certificate of honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, 1929.