Irvine-Smith, Fanny Louise (1878–1948)
Irvine-Smith, Fanny Louise (1878–1948)
New Zealand teacher, lecturer, and writer. Name variations: Fanny Louise Smith. Born on Sept 10, 1878, at Napier, New Zealand; died Dec 20, 1948, in Wellington; dau. of Thomas Smith (master mariner) and Margaret Isabella (Sproule) Smith; Victoria College, BA, 1908; MA, 1921.
Taught at New Plymouth and Kaimiro schools in Taranaki, and at Waipawa school in Hawke's Bay; founding editor of Victoria College magazine, Style (1902); lectured in New Zealand history and Maori culture at Teachers' Training College, Wellington, beginning 1932; published history of Wellington, The Streets of My City (1948).
See also Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 4).
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