While aboard a ship, Annette Susannah Beveridge (née Akroyd) met Mrs Goldie, a Scottish woman travelling to see her recently widowed son-in-law, Henry Beveridge. After studying at Edinburgh Academy, the University of Glasgow and Queen’s College, Belfast, Henry passed the public exams for the Indian Civil Service (ICS). He left for India in 1857. Allotted to the Bengal cadre, he served as a judge in many of its districts.
Determined to work with Keshab Chandra Sen, Annette arrived in Calcutta in mid-December 1872, a few days after her thirtieth birthday. Teaching girls in India was on her mind. She stayed initially with Manmohan Ghose, a well-known lawyer. She met Henry Beveridge, courtesy of Mrs Goldie, but she would have met him even without the latter’s involvement, as he was a close associate of her Bengali tutor, Krishna Kumar Gupta. Henry quickly became a supporter of Annette’s teaching venture. Among the first on her list of contributors, he gave a large donation for the school she wanted to establish – Rs 100 and an additional Rs 10 per month, though he had some family responsibilities and not much discretionary income.
As the months passed, Annette sensed a chasm between Sen’s public positions on...
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