Eleanor Blackmore

Eleanor Blackmore
Eleanor Blackmore, from a 1916 publication
Born
Eleanor Maud Blackmore

(1873-04-17)17 April 1873
Havant, Hampshire, UKGBI
Died25 August 1943(1943-08-25) (aged 70)
Poole, Dorset, UK
Occupations

Eleanor Blackmore (17 April 1873 – 25 August 1943) was a British Baptist missionary and missionary nurse based in Nicaragua.[1][2] In 1917, Blackmore founded the present-day Colegio Bautista de Managua and co-founded the First Baptist Church of Managua.[2][3][4][5][6]

Early life

Eleanor Maud Blackmore born in Havant, Hampshire on 17 April 1873 to William Blackmore, a linen draper and Maria Blackmore.[7][8][9][10]

Blackmore was educated at a private boarding school.[11] Blackmore later studied at the Baptist Deaconess Home in Chester for two years, whilst also undertaking a course in nursing.[4][11][5]

Career

Previous to her work in Nicaragua, Blackmore worked in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.[3][4] In either 1902 or 1903, Blackmore relocated to Costa Rica in order to assist during a yellow fever outbreak, and nearly died when she contracted the illness herself.[3][12][13][4]

In 1903, Blackmore became affiliated with the Central American Mission (CAM) in Nicaragua.[2][11] In 1911, Blackmore began working with several Baptist missionaries across Nicaragua.[2][11]

Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society

In April 1916, Blackmore was commissioned by the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society as the society's first general missionary in Nicaragua.[5][11]

In 1917, Blackmore founded a Baptist school in Managua (present-day Colegio Bautista de Managua).[5][6] The same year Blackmore and José Mendoza co-founded the First Baptist Church of Managua.[2][4]

In 1924, Blackmore helped to lead revival meetings throughout Nicaragua alongside Roberto Valenzuela Elphick and Henry Strachan, the co-director of the director of the Latin America Mission (LAM).[14] Her reports from the field often described intense opposition from Roman Catholic leaders and their parishioners,[15] noting, "I am not a pessimist or I would not have stuck at this field for 26 years."[16]

In 1920, she spoke at a convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[17] Blackmore retired from the mission field in 1938, and returned to England.[18]

Personal life and legacy

Blackmore died on 25 August 1943 in Poole, Dorset[a] aged 70.[20][21]

Notes

  1. ^ Also cited as Wellington, Somerset.[19]

References

  1. ^ "Predicts Nicaraguan Trouble in 1928". New York Times. New York, New York. 2 June 1927. p. 8. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  2. ^ a b c d e Smith, Calvin L. (2007). "Survey Of Nicaraguan Protestantism (1556–1978)". Revolution, Revival, and Religious Conflict in Sandinista Nicaragua. Religion in the Americas, Volume: 6. Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 43–74. ISBN 9789047419358. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  3. ^ a b c "La misteriosa Srita. Eleanore M. Blackmore: Pinceladas históricas de la relación entre las iglesias bautista y centroamericana". Camino al centenario CBN: Blog Oficial de la Convención Bautista de Nicaragua (in Spanish). Managua, Nicaragua: Baptist Convention of Nicaragua. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  4. ^ a b c d e Grimmell Judd, Bertha (1927). "Messengers of Peace: Central America". Fifty Golden Years: The First Half Century of the Woman's American. Baptist Home Mission Society 1877–1927. Rochester, New York: The DuBois Press. pp. 82–84. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  5. ^ a b c d "The School of the Living Christ". Missions: an International Baptist Magazine. 15 (1): 216–217. January 1924. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  6. ^ a b Rosales Medina, Adolfo. "La huella de los bautistas en la educación". Polytechnic University of Nicaragua (in Spanish). Managua, Nicaragua. Archived from the original on 12 July 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Eleanor Maud Blackmore [Birth Index]". England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. 2b (Q2). London: General Register Office: 371. 1873.
  8. ^ "Eleanor M. Blackmore". Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881; Hampshire; Fordingbridge. Key, Richmond: The National Archives: 15. 1881.
  9. ^ "William Blackmore". Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881; Hampshire; Fordingbridge. Key, Richmond: The National Archives: 15. 1881.
  10. ^ "Eleanor M Blackmore". 1939 England and Wales Register ; Hampshire; Bournemouth Cb; Eaca. Kew, Richmond: The National Archives. 1939.
  11. ^ a b c d e "The New Field at Nicaragua". Missions: an International Baptist Magazine. VII (1). January 1916. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  12. ^ Hull, Eleanor (1975). "The Cross is Bending to the Earth". Women Who Carried the Good News. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Judson Press. pp. 47–55. ISBN 978-0-8170-0651-8. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  13. ^ Hayne, Coe (March 1921). "Going Forward with the Book in Nicaragua (part 2)". Missions: American Baptist International Magazine. 12: 146–150.
  14. ^ "A Stirring Revival in Nicaragua" Missions: American Baptist INternational Magazine 15(October 1924): 543.
  15. ^ Hayne, Coe (February 1921). "Going Forward With the Book in Nicaragua: Dramatic Incidents in the Life of Eleanor Blackmore, a Pioneer in Central America in Perilous Days". Missions: American Baptist International Magazine. 12: 68–70.
  16. ^ "Minus Twenty Cents!" Missions: American Baptist International Magazine 15(March 1924): 173.
  17. ^ Neisser, Rittenhouse (6 November 1920). "Pennsylvania Convention". The Baptist. 1: 1401.
  18. ^ Butler, Mary (May 1942). "The Shoemaker Evangelist of Nicaragua". Missions. 33: 280–281 – via Internet Archive.
  19. ^ "They Served their Day and Generation: Eleanor M. Blackmore". Missions. 34: 611. December 1943 – via Internet Archive.
  20. ^ "Eleanor M Blackmore [Death Index]". England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. 5a (Q3). London: General Register Office: 241. 1943.
  21. ^ "Blackmore Eleanor Maud". Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. London: Principal Probate Registry: 437. 1943.
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