About Mary Ann Cooke
Lived 1784 – 1868 (aged 83–84). Mary Ann Cooke was a missionary.
Mary Ann Cooke (1784–1868) was a British missionary and educator, active in Calcutta in India. In 1821, she became the first single female missionary to be sent from England to India, and founded a network of missionary girls' schools in Calcutta, which were famous as the first schools for girls in India, laying the foundation for modern female education in India.
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Mary Ann Cooke was born in 1784.
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Mary Ann Cooke died in 1868.
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