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Catherine Morice Charteris

Biographical dictionary of Scottish Women p21 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=%22catherine+morice+charteris%22&source=bl&ots=FZxKydDupa&sig=ACfU3U23zMwcPwVVlN5bvmmDWN5EfLVQUQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYse7v8sDsAhXTtHEKHdiSA54Q6AEwAnoECAUQAg#v=onepage&q=%22catherine%20morice%20charteris%22&f=false

"The Church of Scotland Women's Guildl also an initiative of and Dr. Charteris and CMC formally launched in 1887 and in 1891 held its first conference"

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https://doi-org.nls.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/48850

Charteris [née Anderson], Catherine Morice [Katie] (1837–1918), philanthropist, was born at Aberdeen, the elder of two daughters of Sir Alexander Anderson, advocate and lord provost of Aberdeen, and his wife, née Rachel Johnston. Her father was one of the most distinguished and enterprising Aberdonians of the nineteenth century. His wife's health was poor, and so Catherine took on much of the responsibility for acting as Sir Alexander's hostess. She was an intelligent and well-educated young woman, who became known for her wit, her forthright manner, and her rather unconventional willingness to express opinions and exchange views in the company of civic dignitaries, businessmen, and academic and church leaders. She was small and slightly built, with a fine bone structure and a ready smile. She first encountered Archibald Hamilton Charteris (1835–1908), a young Church of Scotland minister, in 1860, when he travelled north to interview her father for a biography. They were married in the parlour of the lord provost's residence on 24 November 1863, and Catherine left Aberdeen to set up home in Glasgow, where her husband had been called to serve as minister of Park Church in the West End—one of the wealthiest churches in the city. Soon after they arrived Charteris commented in a letter to his mother, 'My wife is determined to like Glasgow; and she is succeeding' (Gordon, 89). But Catherine's new life did not conform to the conventional pattern of the genteel manse. Her husband began a mission in Port Dundas, an inner city slum area. Catherine was instrumental in organizing and leading teams of women from Park to engage in home visiting, mothers' meetings, Bible classes, and other elements of a strategy by which Archibald Charteris sought to challenge and invigorate the rather complacent and conservative kirk. This characteristic mid-century expression of evangelical Christian commitment was novel in several ways—not least in its call to women to serve the church through philanthropic activities.

In 1868 Archibald Charteris accepted the chair of biblical criticism at Edinburgh University, but maintained his engagement in home mission work, and continued to rely heavily on the visiting, administrative, personal, and organizational skills of his childless wife. At the same time, as convener of the kirk's life and work committee, he developed a campaign to organize the extensive but piecemeal women's work of the church within a national structure. The Woman's Guild of the Church of Scotland was inaugurated in 1887, and provided a great opportunity for Katie (as his wife was known) to make her practical, innovatory, and inspirational contribution to its progress. A colleague wrote of 'her wise counsel and loving heart', and that the guild 'owes its very existence to her efforts' (Life and Work: Woman's Guild Supplement, 1906, 69). She was the first national president, serving in that capacity from 1895 to 1906 (by which time guild membership was well over 40,000), and she initiated several caring schemes and institutions. But perhaps it was as editor (1891–1901) of the Woman's Guild Supplement that she was most influential. She used its monthly pages (which she hoped would serve as a 'guild parliament') to encourage women in parishes across Scotland into confident and imaginative action, challenging Christian complacency and female lack of self-esteem, and regularly highlighting the poverty and injustice which she believed women, working together, might alleviate. In her farewell column she wrote:

There is much to be done in these dark times; and what is more, much which it lies within our power to do; and who can tell what an influence for good our great Guild may accomplish ‘If sister grasp the hand of sister, stepping fearless through the night’. Life and Work: Woman's Guild Supplement, 1901, 108 Archibald Charteris died in 1908; Catherine Charteris died at 4 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh, on 18 November 1918 from 'extensive burns', and was buried in Edinburgh.

Somewhat overshadowed in public life by her husband's forceful personality, only those who knew them well realised how much Mrs Charteris really did to bring success to [his] many enterprises, and with what interest and self-forgetfulness she laboured in the Church's service.

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https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=catherine+morice+charteris+obituary+1918&source=bl&ots=FZxKydEuk7&sig=ACfU3U0fdpa5-iqOxIUKDdABycDxe0Ya4g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPmJCz9sDsAhUzUhUIHfBjDiwQ6AEwD3oECAoQAg#v=onepage&q=catherine%20morice%20charteris%20obituary%201918&f=false

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