Irene Petrie

Irene Eleanora Verita Petrie (October 1864 – 6 August 1897) was a British missionary who died in Kashmir on the Indian subcontinent in 1897.

[1] She was educated at home and then attended Notting Hill High School for Girls[2] before taking the Cambridge Higher examination.

The Church Missionary Society trained her in Stoke Newington and she was bound for Lahore in October 1893.

She was initially a volunteer at Saint Hilda's Diocesan Home which cared for the Christian poor.

The following year, she moved to the CMS's Kashmir mission in Srinagar, where she improved her language skills.

Petrie lodged at with them at Holton Cottage.