Anne Hargreaves

Anne Hayward Hargreaves (1870 – September 6, 1923) was an English-born educator who was an Anglican missionary deaconess in the Philippines. She promoted and ran schools in the Cordillera region.

Anne Hargreaves
A smiling older white woman wearing a head covering, eyeglasses, and a high starched collar; there is a bouquet in the photo's foreground
Anne Hargreaves, from a 1922 publication
Born
Anne Hayward

1870
Bury, Greater Manchester, UK
DiedSeptember 6, 1923
Manila, Philippines
Occupation(s)Missionary educator, deaconess
Known forStarted a girls' school in the Besao Mountains

Early life

Anne Hayward was born in Bury, Greater Manchester, the daughter of Robert Hayward. She lived in New York City as a young woman.[1]

Career

Hargreaves became an Anglican missionary in widowhood. "The thing that made the greatest impression upon me was the absolute nakedness of the people," she recalled in 1922, "not because of the civilized idea of its immodesty, but because of the suffering of the people."[2] She was headmistress of the Easter School in Baguio City in 1907, and made the school co-education in 1909, when she opened a girls' vocational weaving course.[3] She arrived in Besao in 1912 and started St. James' School, a girls' school.[4][5] She lectured on her work to church groups, and took a course at the New York Training School for Deaconesses, while she was on furlough in the United States in 1911–1912,[6][7] 1917,[8][9][10] and 1922.[2] Her presentations included costumes and stereopticon views of her mission region.[11][12]

Personal life and legacy

Anne Hayward married Alfred Hargreaves in Tottington in 1894, and moved with him to New York City. He died in 1905, at age 35. She died in September 1923, in Manila, at the age of 53. Her grave is in Besao.[13]

A church was built in Besao in 1926 and named St. Anne's Church in her memory. The Easter Weaving Room she opened in 1909 is still (as of 2012) a working and historic site in Baguio, producing and selling traditional Igorot handicrafts under the auspices of the Episcopal Diocese of North Central Philippines.[14][15][16]

References
  1. Hargreaves, Anne (September 1907). "At Work with Boys and Girls in Peko Land". The Spirit of Missions. 72 (9): 784–785.
  2. "Deaconess Tells of Mission Work Among Igorrotes". The Oregon Daily Journal. 1922-09-13. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "A Brief History". Easter College. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
  4. "Special Dates in ECP History". Episcopal Church in the Philippines. 2018-03-01. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
  5. Mosher, Bishop (May 1922). "The Mission on the Hilltop". The Spirit of Missions. 87 (5): 293–295 – via Internet Archive.
  6. "Announcements: The Philippines". The Spirit of Missions. 76 (12): 1034. December 1911.
  7. "Missionaries Available for Appointments". The Living Church. 46: 812. April 13, 1912.
  8. "Deaconess from Philippines". Buffalo Courier. 1917-09-26. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-12-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Missionary Speakers". The Spirit of Missions. 82 (5): 352. May 1917.
  10. "Diocesan Auxiliary Hears About Missions in Philippines". The Buffalo Times. 1917-09-30. p. 27. Retrieved 2022-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Missionary Societies". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1912-02-10. p. 22. Retrieved 2022-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Philippine Teacher to Give Address Here". The Journal. 1912-03-22. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-12-21 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Lindley, Grace (May 1924). "Round the World with Miss Lindley Part V: The Philippines" (PDF). The Spirit of Missions. 89 (5): 331.
  14. "Easter Weaving Room, Easter School Baguio City". Go Baguio!. Retrieved 2022-12-20.
  15. Balonglong, Luke (September 4, 2011). "Easter's 102 year old Weaving Room Expands". Northern Dispatch. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  16. Allad-Iw, Arthur L. "Bishop blesses new wing of Easter Weaving Room" Northern Dispatch (January 1, 2012).
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