Pank, Ailsa May Lovell, 1909-2006 (Cert. Social Study, Edinburgh University)

Person

Dates

Existence: 1909 - 2006

Biography

Cert. Social Study 1947. After graduating, Ailsa worked as a Children's Welfare Officer for the County of West Sussex. She went on to work in Uganda and Kenya with the Church Missionary Society.

Sources: Student admission file, EUA; Edinburgh University calendar; Ancestry.co.uk, accessed September 2019.

Ailsa May Lovell Pank (1909-2006) was a CMS missionary 1958-1970. Prior to joining the CMS she had trained as a social worker and her first posting with the CMS was as a social worker at leper hospitals in Uganda, from there she spent time in Nigeria and India before transferring to Kenya where she helped establish a rehabilitation centre for delinquent youths. After her retirement from the CMS in 1970 she stayed on in Mombasa until eventually returning to England. She spent her last years living at Venn House and then Abbeyfield Woodgate House, Tunbridge Wells. [taken from online catalogue for CMS/ACC883, University of Birmingham where the personal papers of Ailsa Pank are held at the Cadbury Research Library Special Collections within the archives of the Church Missionary Society].

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

P18 Pank, Ailsa May Lovell, 1946-1948

File — Box SW 42

Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/8/1/735

Scope and Contents

Cert. Social Study 1947. File contains: enrolment form, correspondence.

Dates: 1946-1948

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Student Records / Admission Files: Certificate and Diploma in Social Study