Rachelina Hepburn Armitage

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Rachelina Hepburn Armitage

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Background

Rachelina (Rachel) Hepburn Armitage (née Stewart) 1873-1955, was an active social worker and community leader supporting many causes for women’s and children’s welfare, including the Plunket Society. Rachel attended Otago Girls' High School in Dunedin and moved later to England to study. She became the first New Zealand woman to complete a BA course at The University of Oxford in 1896. While living in England, she worked improving the education and welfare of working-class women and children in London. Returning to New Zealand in 1903, she moved to South Canterbury and continued her community work, founding a local branch of the New Zealand Federation of Women's Institutes in Temuka. She later became a leading campaigner for the Plunket Society in rural Canterbury and became president of the Temuka branch of the Plunket Society from 1941 to 1928.

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Historical or notable people

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Female

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