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British nun and missionary doctor (1925–2017)

Una Kroll
BornUna Margaret Patricia Hill
15 December 1925
London, England
Died6 January 2017(2017-01-06) (aged 91)
EducationSt Paul's Girls' School
Malvern Girls College
Alma materGirton College, Cambridge
Known formissionary doctor, nun, priest, and campaigner for women's ordination
SpouseLeopold Kroll
Children4
Parent(s)George Alexander Hill
Hilda Evelyn Pediani
RelativesFrederick Temple (great-granduncle)

Una Margaret Patricia Kroll (nee Hill, 15 December 1925 – 6 January 2017) was a British nun, missionary doctor, priest, and campaigner for women's ordination.

Early life

Kroll was born in London, and grew up in Paris, Latvia, and London. Her father, George Alexander Hill (1892–1968), was the son of a timber merchant with business interests stretching from Siberia to Persia, and a British intelligence officer in the First and Second World Wars. Her mother Hilda Evelyn (née Pediani) was the daughter of an Italian tobacco merchant who had eloped from Constantinople with the niece of Frederick Temple (an Archbishop of Canterbury) before settling in St Petersburg where the couple had seven children, the youngest of which was Hilda. Hilda Pediani worked as a spy for the British and fell for "philandering" fellow spy George Hill, with Una conceived out of wedlock, and although her father bigamously married her mother before she was born, he left before she was two years old.

Kroll was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, Malvern Girls College, and Girton College, Cambridge, from which she graduated with a degree in medicine.

Career

In the October 1974 general election, she stood for Parliament in Sutton and Cheam as an independent candidate on an equal opportunities platform.

After she was widowed at the age of 61, she became a nun.

In 1997, aged 72 and serving as a deacon in a Welsh parish, she was ordained as a priest by the then Bishop of Monmouth, Dr Rowan Williams.

In 2008, she converted to Catholicism.

Personal life

In 1957, she married Leopold Kroll, an American monk 25 years older than her who had brought her back to England from her work as a missionary doctor in Liberia after she fell ill. They had the first of four children in 1958, and moved to Namibia in 1959, where they became active in the anti-apartheid movement and were expelled from the country within two years.

Kroll died on 6 January 2017 at the age of 91.

Publications

References

  1. ^ Oestreicher, Paul (8 January 2017). "The Rev Dr Una Kroll obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Una Kroll – a short biography". Women Can Be Priests. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  3. "Dr Una Kroll, campaigner for women's ordination – obituary". The Telegraph. 12 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  4. "The Anglican woman vicar who gave up her ministry to become a Catholic". Catholic Herald. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  5. ^ Ward, Lucy (17 November 2014). "Una Kroll: 'Public protest is still very important'". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Women's ordination campaigner Una Kroll dies at 91". Church Times. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Una Kroll". The Times. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  8. "How a supporter of women's ordination left the Anglican Church to become a Catholic". Catholic Herald. 19 February 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2017.

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