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<person>
<titlename>Blanche Ethel Smithies</titlename>
<fullname>Blanche Ethel Smithies</fullname>
<sex>F</sex>
<father href="ams.xml">Arthur Morton Smithies</father>
<mother href="hmp.xml">Henrietta Mary Please</mother>
<birthdate>N/K.</birthdate>
<birthplace>N/K.</birthplace>
<baptplace>N/K.</baptplace>
<baptdate>N/K.</baptdate>
<deathdate>1934 (18 January?)</deathdate>
<deathcause>N/K.</deathcause>
<buryplace>Worthing?</buryplace>
<occupation>Medical Missionary</occupation>

<photolist>
<photo><name>pages/KCLSA-Aunts</name>
<title>With mother and sister</title></photo>
<photo>
<name>pages/KCLSA-Blanche-1932</name>
<title>At Walthamstow Hall</title>
</photo>
</photolist>

<other>
<p>
This lady was a Medical Missionary of extremely high personal standards.
She endowed the education of her nephew <a href="kcls.xml">Kenneth</a>,
since his parents were impecunious. (This is attested by a
<a href="besltr.html">very touching letter</a> written from S.
Bartholomew's hospital on 1934/01/10, shortly before her death, to her
brother <a href="hks.xml">Harold</a>.)
When she retired she was on the staff of Walthamstow Hall, a
prestigious school for the daughters of the Anglican Clergy in Sevenoaks.
A close friend, a Miss Ramsay, was the Head Mistress, and Miss Isabel
McDonald was the Matron (she lived at Eastbourne and was visited there in
her old age by KCLS's family).
</p>
<p>
<a href="kcls.xml">KCLS</a> learned of her death while at kindergarten
at Nicholl Road, Harlesden,
run by Miss Wynhall and her younger sister "Miss Ida".
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</person>