Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Sherriff, Betty
Parallel form(s) of name
- Graham, Betty
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
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Description area
Dates of existence
?-1979
History
Betty Sherriff nee Graham was born at the turn of the century in British India in the Himalayan foothills. She was the youngest daughter of a Scottish vicar and missionary. Dr. John Anderson Graham, who had founded the St. Andrew's Colonial Homes (now the Kalimpong Homes) on behalf of needy Indian children. She had previously been married and had a degree in Botany from Oxford.
Sources: Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story of Five American Airmen, a Doomed Plane, and the Will to Survive by Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt
Primula by John Richards