1. Kate Marsden was a British missionary, explorer, writer and nurse.
39 Facts About Kate Marsden
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Kate Marsden set out on a round trip from Moscow to Siberia to find a cure, creating a leper treatment centre in Siberia.
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Kate Marsden returned to England and helped to found Bexhill Museum, but she was obliged to retire as a trustee.
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Kate Marsden was however elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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Kate Marsden has a large diamond named after her and is still celebrated in Siberia, where a large memorial statue was erected at Sosnovka village in 2014.
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Kate Marsden was born in Edmonton in London in 1859 to solicitor JD Kate Marsden and Sophie Matilda Wellsted.
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Kate Marsden's uncle was the explorer Captain James Raymond Wellsted.
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Kate Marsden became a nurse when she was 16 and went to work in a London hospital.
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Kate Marsden later became a matron at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand, having gone there with her mother Sarah, to nurse her own sister who was ill with tuberculosis.
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Kate Marsden's record gained her this senior position but she held that position for just five months.
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Kate Marsden had an accident on a step ladder which made her unable to work for several months.
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Kate Marsden had set up a St John's Ambulance group in New Zealand and she gave lectures there.
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Kate Marsden was given financial support to continue her work.
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Kate Marsden travelled from Tottenham to Bulgaria with others to nurse Russian soldiers wounded in Russia's war with Turkey in 1877.
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Kate Marsden continued to work as a nurse whilst visiting the sick but wanting to leave for the British colonies to treat leprosy.
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Kate Marsden set sail from England to Moscow on board the merchant vessel Parramatta.
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Kate Marsden was able to arrange an audience with the Tsarina after she arrived in Moscow in November 1890.
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Kate Marsden took provisions including clothing so robust that it took three men to carry her into the sledge that carried her part of the way.
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Kate Marsden said that she could not bend her legs in the outfit.
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Kate Marsden set out three months later with an assistant and translator Ada Field.
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Kate Marsden's journey took her some 11,000 miles across Russia, by train, sledge, on horseback and by boat.
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Kate Marsden had to interrupt her journey near Omsk after falling ill.
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Kate Marsden helped at prisons she encountered on her journey, and gave out food to Russian prisoners as they travelled into exile, with double rations for the women who accompanied them or women who were convicts.
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Kate Marsden then travelled down the River Lena to Yakutsk where she obtained the herb that she believed might be a cure for leprosy.
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In 1893, Kate Marsden travelled to Chicago to attend the World's Fair.
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Kate Marsden had a booth in the Woman's Building, and she gave a lecture about her travels to the Congress of Women, held in the Woman's Building.
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In 1895, Kate Marsden founded a charity, still active today, now known as the St Francis Leprosy Guild.
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Kate Marsden died in London on 26 March 1931, and was buried in Hillingdon cemetery in Uxbridge on 31 March.
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Kate Marsden's grave was overgrown for many years and covered in bushes.
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The monument to Kate Marsden was consecrated on 3 September 2019.
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Kate Marsden's ideas were picked up in New Zealand, where Marsden had earlier lived.
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Kate Marsden began a libel case, but did not proceed with her libel case because of insufficient funds.
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Kate Marsden seems to have anticipated some disbelief in her deeds and motives in her book.
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Kate Marsden is credited as the person who inspired the museum's creation.
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Kate Marsden encouraged Dr Walter Amsden to donate his collection of Egyptian artefacts.
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The Charity Organisation Society advised that Kate Marsden was "not a fit person to manage charitable funds".
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The controversy surrounding Kate Marsden was not resolved and she finished her life suffering from dropsy and senile decay.
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In 2008 an investigation was undertaken to try to find the mystery herb that Kate Marsden had travelled to Siberia to find.
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The Royal Geographical Society has a small collection of items that belonged to Kate Marsden including her watch, a whistle and the brooch that was given to her by Queen Victoria.