[2] Katharine Tristram was born on 29 April 1858 in Castle Eden, co. Durham, the fifth child of the Revd.
Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906), canon of Durham, and his wife, Eleanor Mary (d. 1903), daughter of Captain P. Bowlby.
[4] In 1882 Katharine Tristram was appointed as the first resident lecturer at Westfield College, under its first principal, Constance Maynard.
Tristram and other missionaries visited the disaster zone to provide aid to the injured and dying.
[11] Tristram retired from Bishop Poole School in 1927 but remained in Tokyo until 1938, when life became more difficult for British and American missionaries in Japan - in part because of the outbreak of war with China in 1937.