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.