Everything tagged: Jill Doggett

Born in 1912, Jill Doggett was a well-known Hong Kong journalist and champion for social justice who worked for the South China Morning Post from 1953 to 1974.

Barbara Lomas was a missionary nurse who was born in 1909 to Charles and Elizabeth Lomas in Withington, Manchester.  The 1911 census tells us that Charles was a warehouseman for a company dealing in cotton goods and the family with two girls and Elizabeth’s widowed mother lived in a respectable Victorian terraced house.