Julia Sass

Julia Emily Sass (died 20 October 1891), was a British missionary, active in Sierra Leone in the middle of the nineteenth century.

She was responsible for the setting up of this school, but was absent from Sierra Leone from 1853 to 1855 for health reasons.

[2]: 177  Originally she was appointed superintendent of the Female Institution, Freetown under the auspices of the Church Missionary Society.

[4] The school was set up to train the wives of missionaries and only accepted the daughters conceived in Christian wedlock.

[5] She was interested in horticulture and corresponded with Joseph Dalton Hooker of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.