Mary Bird (medical missionary) (original) (raw)

Mary Rebecca Stewart Bird (1859–1914) was a Church Mission Society (CMS) missionary who pioneered Christian ministry to Iranian women and women's medical missions in the CMS. Although she had received no official medical training, Bird was the first female medical missionary to be employed by the CMS. Born in a weakened state, Bird died in 1914 at the age of fifty-five leaving behind a vibrant medical ministry in Iran.