Belle Patrick
Belle Hay Patrick (22 August 1895 – 1972) was one of the first three women to become a lawyer in Scotland. However, despite qualifying in 1925, she never practiced as a lawyer, but rather focused her attention on missionary work in Algiers.[1]
Patrick was born in Anstruther. She gained a scholarship to attend the local Waid Academy from the age of 9, and then a bursary to attend the University of St Andrews.[1] However, at the insistence of her mother she found work with the legal firm of Mackintosh and Watson in the neighbouring village of Pittenweem.[2]
Missionary work
[edit]In 1924, before qualifying as a lawyer, Patrick met Lilias Trotter in St Andrews. She remained in Scotland until her qualification as a lawyer was confirmed. The following day, she booked her passage to Algiers where Trotter had become bedridden.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Alnutt, Debbie (10 October 2017). "Belle Patrick: A Kind of Missionary". Calvary Chapel. Calvary Global Network. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ Collinson, Patrick (2011). The history of a history man, or, The twentieth century viewed from a safe distance : the memoirs of Patrick Collinson. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. ISBN 9781843836278.
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