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Mary Mitchell Slessor

(1848-1915) Scottish Presbyterian missionary
Person human Q6780743
Mary Mitchell Slessor

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
female[9]
Date of birth
December 2, 1848
Date of death
January 13, 1915
Place of birth
Aberdeen
Place of death
Calabar
Country of citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[7]
Occupation
missionary, explorer
Religion or worldview
Presbyterianism[8]
Languages spoken, written or signed
English[16]
Described by source
Dictionary of African Biography, A historical dictionary of British women, Biographical dictionary of Christian missions, History of Missiology[12][13][14][15]
Family name
Slessor[10]
Given name
Mary[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mary (Mitchell) Slessor en Mary Mitchell Slessor ar ماري سلسور cs Mary Slessorová da Mary Slessor de Mary Mitchell Slessor ja メアリー・スレッサー pl Mary Mitchell Slessor pt Mary Mitchell Slessor
🔖 Identifiers · 37
ISNI
0000000053816266
VIAF cluster ID
38158535
Library of Congress authority ID
n50012565
GND ID
1028583931
AAGM person or institution ID
31669
BBC Things ID
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BIBSYS ID
98069233
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11956015c
British Museum person or institution ID
184600
Collective Biographies of Women ID
14275
FAST ID
3788
FemBio ID
25457
Show all 37 identifiers +25
Freebase ID
/m/04k45b
Gazetteer for Scotland person ID
257
IdRef ID
178212555
IxTheo authority ID
731288548
Libraries Australia ID
61543968
Libris-URI
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NUKAT ID
n2019005589
National Library of Brazil ID
000357271
National Library of Greece ID
231554
National Library of Israel ID (old)
002101641
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007578877405171
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810589680305606
National Virtual Library of India ID
257944
Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
111661404
Open Plaques subject ID
4869
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID
37973
Oxford Reference overview ID
20110803100511148
SELIBR ID
257103
SNAC ARK ID
w6w24d8n
UK National Archives ID
F39784
Wellcome Collection concept ID
fzqq6atf
WikiTree person ID
Slessor-17
Women of Scotland subject ID
mary-slessor
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJmDrPMcvDwpwhdBx3T4MP
Yale LUX ID
person/080305a8-3335-49cd-b776-afdfffaf4a04

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Occupation 2
missionary, explorer
Country of citizenship 1
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Described by source 1
History of Missiology
Given name 1
Mary
Instance of 1
human
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
English
Place of birth 1
Aberdeen
Place of death 1
Calabar
Religion or worldview 1
Presbyterianism
Sex or gender 1
female
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Summary

Mary Mitchell Slessor was born on December 2, 1848[1], in Aberdeen[2]. She died on January 13, 1915[3], in Calabar[4]. She worked as a missionary[5] and explorer[6].

FAQs

Where was Mary Mitchell Slessor born?

Mary Mitchell Slessor's place of birth was Aberdeen[2].

Where did Mary Mitchell Slessor die?

Mary Mitchell Slessor died in Calabar[4].

What did Mary Mitchell Slessor do for work?

Mary Mitchell Slessor worked as a missionary[5] and explorer[6].

Related Entities

Calabar United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Dictionary of African Biography. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . History of Missiology. wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [1] ↑ . SNAC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . SNAC. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . bu.edu. bu.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . IdRef. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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