Elizabeth Hetherwick dating history

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Elizabeth Hetherwick born Elizabeth Barclay Pithie also known as Elizabeth Fenwick (18 March, 1861 – 1945) was an unmarried orphaned teenager who became a Scottish-born missionary in Malawi. She married a man accused of cruelty and torture and they had, and lost, two children. Her hot-tempered husband was fired from two different jobs and he was killed after he murdered his business partner, who was a tribal chief. The family of the chief demanded that his wife should be surrendered, but she was taken in by the mission at Blantyre. The man who had taken her in was later replaced for championing the rights of women and Africans. Hetherwick had married his successor and they moved into the manse. Hetherwick returned alone to Scotland to supervise her children's education. She was eventually reunited with her husband for the last decade of his life.