Annie Cecile Ramsbottom Isherwood (1862, in Uxbridge, England - 20 February 1906) was an Anglican nun and founder of the Community of the Resurrection of our Lord in Grahamstown.
Isherwood was 21 when Allan Becher Webb, Bishop of Grahamstown, came to preach in St Peter's on the text "I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision", it was at this service she felt called to leave England and undertake work in his diocese.
She was clothed as a novice on St Mark’s Day, 25 April 1884, and made her final profession on 14 November 1887.
[3][4] In 1894 the Community founded the Grahamstown Training College, an institution which played a valuable part in the development of education in southern Africa, it was forced to close down in 1975.
[5] Mother Cecile CR is commemorated in the Calendar of saints (Anglican Church of Southern Africa) on 20 February.