Barbara Lomas was a missionary nurse who trained with the BCMS at Carfax College, Bristol and went out to Hong Kong circa 1932 to help at The Foundling Home in Broadwood Road. The idea was for her to learn the language and then go on to join one of the Mission stations in Guangxi Province, China.
Jill Doggett says, ‘Everything about Barbara was big. Her frame, her heart, her wide smile, all-embracing gestures and the amount of love she expended.’ As a trained nurse she was in her element when nursing the sick.
When the Foundling Home moved to Taipo in 1933, Barbara too went along and assisted Mildred Dibden when Miss Lucas retired.
In China a mission station was opened in Ham-Chow, Guangxi, by the Rev G A and Mrs Margery Hook (was Bennett) and Barbara went from Taipo to join the work there sometime before 1936 to take charge of a newly opened dispensary.
In 1936 after her mission work finished in Hong Kong and China, she went back to England and was appointed matron of a hospital in the Isle of Man.
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