Lucy Alexa Heathcote Currie

Lucy Alexa Heathcote Currie (28 January 1868 – 19 December 1957) was a medical-missionary midwife and nurse as well as an education missionary. She was an influential figure in the missionary healthcare community, contributing to midwifery and women's healthcare in India as part of the Church Missionary Society (CMS). Currie served as an example of the combination of healthcare, education, and missionary work during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Early life

Personal life Lucy Alexa Heathcote Currie was born on January 28, 1868, in Shahjahanpur, Bengal, India, to Robert George Currie and Fanny Catherine Ouseley. Her father was an English cricketer.

On January 19, 1895, Currie married Dr. John Orlando Summerhayes, a fellow missionary and physician in India. The couple continued their missionary work in Punjab, raising a family of eight children (two sons and six daughters).

Mission work At the age of 25, in 1893, Currie was accepted as an honorary missionary to the Punjab and Sindh Mission of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), stationed at Tarn Taran, India.

Published work Currie L (compiler). Missionary Birthday Book, Religious Tract Society, 1894. A collection of daily scripture, hymns, and missionary history events.

Death Currie died on December 19, 1957, in Sussex, England, at the age of 89.