2 studio portraits of Lydia Datt taken whilst she was in Edinburgh [by James C. H. Balmain, Photographer and Vitro Enameller, 15 Maitland St., West End of Princes Street and 19 Salisbury Place, Newington, Edinburgh].
Photographs of Dr Lydia Datt of the London Missionary Society Hospital in Almora, United provinces
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- Dates of Creationlate 19th century
- Physical Description2 items
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Administrative / Biographical History
Lydia Datt [Lydia Datt Pant] undertook a medical course at Agra and then worked for three years at the mission hospital there. In 1895 she came to study under Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake in her Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women. Lydia won a Cropper Scholarship in 1895 and 1897 and graduated LRCPS Ed LFPS Gl in 1899. She returned home to Almora and worked with the London Missionary Society in the hospital and Asylum for Lepers.
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Donated to the Council for World Mission and passed to SOAS in November 2006.
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Custodial History
The photographs were originally kept by Mrs Anne Jane Somerville, who became a Director of the London Missionary Society. She was close to Lydia Datt and cared for her when she became ill. The photographs were passed to the Council for World Mission by a descendant of Mrs Somerville.