Alice Green Pappin
Alice Green Pappin (6 May 1861- 11 September 1935) was the first South Australian born person to become an overseas missionary. She left Australia in September 1885 as one of the Five Barley Loaves to become a missionary to Furreedpore, Bengal (now Bangladesh) under the leadership of Ellen Arnold.
Pappin was born at Greenbank, South Australia to William Green Pappin and Martha (nee Williams), her father of Cornish and her mother of Welsh ancestry. Her paternal grandfather was the Methodist come Baptist temperance preacher and evangelist John Williams, the first person to preach in Welsh in Australia.
Alice grew up in the Barossa valley, and her family were very religious, with her grandfather and several of her sisters heavily involved in the temperance (teetotal) movement. While her father eventually left the Baptists due to a falling out over doctrine and became president of the Church of Christ in Australia, Alice remained a Baptist her whole life. Her mother and younger sister died of typhus in 1866, when Alice was 5. Her father remarried, having thirteen children in total.
In her youth Alice was both a Sunday School teacher and a teacher at Angaston Public school.
In 1891 she returned to Australia on furlowe and conducted a speaking tour of South Australia, Tasmania and Broken Hill (western New South Wales), largely in those Baptist churches who supported her on the Furreedpore mission. On one occasion during this tour she addressed to 400 people, mostly male miners in a theatre in the mining town of Broken Hill. She also preached and presided at the opening of the Broken Hill. She often dressed in Bengali costume. She was possibly one of the missionaries who brought back the Berendt Kalighat paintings to Australia.
Pappin was a talented linguist, and learned the local languages quickly. When the younger Dr Cecil Silas Mead arrived at the mission in 1895, she was assigned to help him learn the language. The pair married in 1896, and had two daughters Dorothy and Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck".
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