Slessor

Betsy Stockton (African American, 1822, American Board of Missions to Hawaii) is the first single woman missionary “in modern missions” that I could locate (this via Wikipedia); Mary Slessor (1876) is perhaps the better known early female missionary.

Men and Women’s Mission Agencies 2009

‘I used to buy tickets for Florek to take Dinah Slessor to the theatre,’ Virginia goes on.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

It was made clear that no financial support would be offered to them and that Ronnie Slessor would be excluded from all but the most formal family gatherings.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

In 1931, during the same week that he turned twenty-one and assumed legal control of his inheritance, the young Earl ejected his mother, Lady Cynthia, his stepfather, Ronnie Slessor, and their two small children Dinah and Henry from Middleton Park.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

Slessor, by February 1945, had become filled with horror over the behaviour of the men he now spoke of as ‘the brutes in the Kremlin’.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

His sister, Heather, so he tells me, was a good-looking girl herself, as was her close friend, Dinah, the daughter of Ronnie and Cynthia Slessor.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

The man who issued that edict, then commander-in-chief of the RAF, was the brother of Ronnie Slessor.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

Ronnie Slessor, he tells me, was so short of money that he helped to pay the school bills of Dinah and Henry, his own two children, by selling beautifying cosmetic gloves for ladies.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

Later, after the War, Jack Slessor acknowledged that his decision had been misguided; at the time, he believed that he had no option.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

One picture shows Grandy and his own mother, Lady Cynthia Slessor, posed apart from each other, their arms hanging at their sides, indicative of a recent spat before Grandy had agreed that his stepfather might join the wedding party.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009