Alice harris biography missionary
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Alice Seeley, Lady Harris
A plaque has been inaugurated at 3 Merchants Barton for Alice Seeley by the Frome Society for Local Study and Frome and District Civic Society, which reads:
Anti-slavery campaigner, photographer, missionary to the Congo, artist, scourge of King Leopold II of the Belgians, lived at 3 Merchants Barton 1882 – 1888
Born Malmesbury 24 May 1870. Died Guildford 24 November 1970
The plaque honours the remarkable life of Alice Seeley, a former resident of Frome and first centenarian of the Society. She and her husband, (Sir) John Hobbis Harris were Baptist missionaries in the Congo Free State. Many graphic lectures in Europe and USA by Alice and John accompanied by her early black and white photographs of atrocities by soldiers and overseers in the rubber plantations, led to King Leopold II of the Belgians ceding ownership of the Congo to Belgium in 1908.
The Life of Alice Seeley, Lady Harris
Alice Seeley was born in Malmesbury on 24 May 1870 to Caroline and Alfred Seeley. The family moved to Frome when he became manager of the Silk Mill of Thompson and Le Gros. They lived close to the mill in Merchants Barton where Alice spent her teenage years. She trained for the Civil Service in London and attended missionary classes where she met her future
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Do-Gooder
Full Name
Alice Seeley Harris
Origin
Malmesbury, England
Occupation
Missionary
Photographer
Skills
Photography
Activism
Family
Aldred and Caroline Seeley (parents)
Caroline Alfreda (sister)
John Harris(husband)
Alfred John (son)
Margaret Theodora (daughter)
Katherine Emmerline
Noel Lawrence (son)
Allies
Nsala of Wala
Other missionaries
Enemies
King Leopold II
Sentries
Type of Hero
Missionary Hero
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Alice Seeley Harris (née Seeley, 24 May 1870 – 24 November 1970) was an English missionary and an early documentary photographer. Her photography helped to expose the human rights abuses in the Congo Free State under the regime of King Leopold II of the Belgians.
Alice Seeley was born in Malmesbury to Aldred and Caroline Seeley. Her sister, Caroline Alfreda, was a school teacher.
In 1894, she met her future husband John Harris. Finally in 1897, after seven years of trying, Alice was accep