Helen Mary ('Nell') Boulnois
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| Born | 1872 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Pioneer Club, 12 Cavendish Place, W1 [A63] Sesame Club, 49 Grosvenor Street, W1 [1925] Lyceum Club, 138 Piccadilly, W1 [1929] | ||||||||
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artist traveller literary | ||||||||
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1925.10.18 proposed by C.G. Seligman, seconded by E.N. Fallaize
1925.10.20 On the request of the President [C.G. Seligman] the following was forthwith elected a Fellow of the Institute: Miss Mary Boulnois.
Notes From Elsewhere
Helen Mary Boulnois – born in the Punjab in 1872. Parents Charles Boulnois, Emmeline Barker Goodeve
During the war she established a veterinary hospital but near Calais
Chaplain, WWP [Women’s Working Party] 1943 Jun 1 1945
Lectured on 'The last savages in sunniest Africa' at Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, March 1926
Central Africa and Tibet were penetrated by Miss Helen. M. Boulnois, an English artist, traveller, author and lecturer,- who reached Fremantle on Monday on the liner Aseamus. She is completing her first holiday visit to Australia, but announced her intention of returning next year. Miss Boulnois will be remembered, by a number of Australian soldiers at the rest camp and receiving station at Marseilles.
After the war she commenced her wanderings into the little known parts of the world. In 1922 she journeyed through Kashmir into Tibet, where she spent several months. In 1924-25 she undertook, a journey into Central Africa to see the tomb of her brother, who died at Bahr-el-Ghazet, a province in the Upper Sudan. [he was first governor of the province and founder of the city of Wau.] She covered 5,000 miles and was about to board a houseboat to take her up the Upper Nile when a native uprising resulted in the conversion of the houseboat into a floating fort and she was hurried out of the danger zone.
Her journeyings have provided Miss Boulnois with many subjects, for books, of which she has published six. When she is not travelling or engaged in painting excursions she lectures, and her days of leisure are spent on her citrus farm, called St. Clement's, on the White River in South Africa. '
……. What she describes as the most interesting, and at the same time most sad, memories of her war-time service was after the war, when the British Army authorities apportioned to her the task of official lecturer to the soldiers engaged in cleaning up the battle areas of Flanders and France and burying the dead, around Ypres, Poperinghe, Lille, and Arras.
In 1922 Miss Boulnois journeyed for 600 miles on pony-back through Kashmir to the confines of Tibet, known as Lesser Tibet, through which runs the road to Central Asia. Only 26 passes for this journey are issued every year, and of these 16 are reserved for British officers.- Her experience during three months in that country are related in her book, 'Into Little Tibet.'
Publications
External Publications
The Dominion of Health.'
'The Law of Being,'
'The Healing Power,'
'Some Soldiers and Little Mamma'
Auntie Helen Mary goes to Little Thibet - by Helen Mary Boulnois
Mind Healing. An elementary treatise by Helen Mary Boulnois (1910)
Mystic India by Helen Mary Boulnois (1935)