Beatrice Mary POPE [c.1898-????]

Beatrice Mary Pope was a missionary and teacher. She arrived in Hong Kong in September 1924 and joined St. Stephen's Girls' College/Fairlea School. In 1937, she was transferred to the newly-built Heep Yun School in Kowloon as Warden or Deputy Principal.

Beatrice Pope was one of the three Christian missionaries that also founded the Hong Kong School for the Deaf in 1935.

After the fall of Hong Kong, she was interned at Stanley Camp.

Source

1. https://www.chinafamilies.net/internees/9323-pope-beatrice-mary/

2. Change and Continuity: A History of St. Stephen's Girls' College, Hong Kong, 1906-1996 by Kathleen E. Barker.

3. Promoting All-Round Education for Girls - A History of Heep Yun School, Hong Kong by Patricia P. K. Chiu

4. Beatrice Mary Pope's name/signature appears in brown at centre left under "School" on the "Day Joyce Sheet" held by the Imperial War Museum. 

See: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30083388. An explanation of the "Day Joyce Sheet" is given at: https://gwulo.com/media/46458