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Henrietta Robertson(d.1864)

Description

missionary in Africa

Biography

She was first married to a Mr Woodrow, and then to the Rev. R. I Robertson, who worked with Charles Frederick Mackenzie in central Africa.

Henrietta Robertson was the subject of Anne Mackenzie's book Mission Life among the Zulu-Kafirs: Memorials of Henrietta Robertson wife of the Rev. R. Robertson compiled chiefly from letters and journals written to the late Bishop Mackenzie and his sisters (Cambridge: Deighton 1866) and she also figures in CMY’s Pioneers and Founders, or, Recent Workers in the Mission Field (London: Macmillan 1871).