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[[File:Alice Marval - Window detail. Liverpool Anglican cathedral.jpg|thumb|Alice Marval in a window of "Noble Women" in [[Liverpool Anglican Cathedral]].]]
[[File:Dove.png|right|thumb|Dr Alice Marval depicted in the right panel on Dove Window in All Saints' High Wycombe]]

'''Alice Marietta Marval''' (26 January 1865 – 4 January 1904) popularly known as '''Dr Alice Marval of Cawnpore''', was an [[English people|English]] [[Physician|doctor]] and [[nurse]] who built a hospital in India to serve women and children who were excluded from conventional medical facilities in [[Cawnpore]] (presently [[Kanpur]], [[India]]).<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Boxwallahs: The British in Cawnpore, 1857-1901|author=Yalland, Z.|date=1994|publisher=M. Russell|isbn=9780859552066|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mmRuAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2017-01-08}}</ref> She died after contracting the [[Plague (disease)|Plague]].

==Life==
[[File:Subedar ka talab cemetery Kanpur.jpg|right|thumb|Subedar Ka Talao cemetery near [[VIP Road, Kanpur|VIP Road]] where Marval is laid to rest.]]

Marval from [[London]] qualified "rather late in life" as a doctor when she was only 36.<ref name="okhistory" /> After volunteering for missionary work, she was sent from [[England]] in 1899 under the SPG Mission (now [[United Society]]) to build a new hospital and dispensary.<ref name="discusstheology">{{cite web|url=http://discusstheology.com/index.php/2006/04/19/alice-marval-1865-1904-died-ministering-to-plague-victims-complementarian-who-knows/|publisher=discusstheology.com|title=Discuss Theology » Alice Marval [1865-1904] died ministering to plague victims, complementarian? who knows|access-date=2017-01-08}}</ref> St. Catherine's Hospital was established to provide free services and was staffed entirely by women with the goal of serving the needs of local women and children who were being "shut out by custom from normal medical attendance."<ref name="okhistory" /> <ref name="stcatherineshospital" /> <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stcatherineshospital.org.in/about.html|title=St. Catherine's Hospital|website=www.stcatherineshospital.org.in|access-date=2019-06-27}}</ref>

When the [[Plague (disease)|Plague]] descended on Cawnpore, Marval tended to her patients vigilantly and in the last month of her life, she visited 246 patients.<ref name="okhistory" /> She died in 1904 after contracting the disease and was buried at Subedar Ka Talao Cemetery (now Christians Graveyard) in Cawnpore.<ref name="virginia">{{cite web|url=http://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/women_display.php?id=12070|publisher=cbw.iath.virginia.edu|title=Collective Biographies of Women|access-date=2017-01-08}}</ref>

At St Catherine's Hospital, Marval was the second (after Edith Mary Brown) to found a nursing school for women in India. It still serves the poor and weaker sections of society in Kanpur.<ref name="google2">{{cite book|title=Mission Field: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts|author=Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain)|date=1916|volume=61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAY_AQAAMAAJ|access-date=2017-01-08}}</ref><ref name="google3">{{cite book|title=The book of Liverpool Cathedral|author=Cotton, V.E.|date=1924|publisher=Published for the Liverpool Cathedral Committee [by] Liverpool University Press|isbn=9780853234500|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dFLAQAAIAAJ|access-date=2017-01-08}}</ref><ref name="okhistory">{{cite web|url=http://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth350914/m1/12/|publisher=gateway.okhistory.org|title=Muskogee Daily Phoenix (Muskogee, Oklahoma), Vol. 10, No. 174, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 16, 1911, Sequence: 12 {{pipe}} The Gateway to Oklahoma History|access-date=2017-01-08}}</ref><ref name="stcatherineshospital">{{cite web|url=http://www.stcatherineshospital.org.in/|publisher=stcatherineshospital.org.in|title=St. Catherine's Hospital|access-date=2017-01-08}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:1865 births]]
[[Category:1904 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Kanpur]]
[[Category:Anglican missionaries in India]]
[[Category:Social workers]]
[[Category:Christian medical missionaries]]
[[Category:English Anglican missionaries]]
[[Category:Female Christian missionaries]]

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