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(Margaret Mary) Louise Pirouet (1928–2012) was a British teacher and researcher.

Pirouet was born to missionary parents in Cape Town, South Africa. She gained her PhD at Makerere University in 1968. She subsequently taught at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. From 1978 to 1989 she was Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Homerton College, Cambridge. She died 21 December 2012.

Works

• Black evangelists: the spread of Christianity in Uganda, 1891–1914, London: Collings, 1978.
• Historical dictionary of Uganda, Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1995.
• Whatever happened to asylum in Britain? A tale of two walls, New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, 2001. Studies in Forced Migration, v. 9.

References

1. ^ ”Noteworthy”, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 37, No. 3 (July 2013), p.147
2. The expansion of the Church of Uganda, from Buganda into northern and western Uganda between 1891 and 1914, with special reference to the work of African teachers and evangelists, PhD Thesis, University of East Africa, Makerere College, 1968.
3. "Dr Margaret Mary Louise Pirouet | Homerton College". homerton.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2016.

External links

• Collected Memory Entry: Louise Pirouet, Church Missionary Society, Uganda, Dictionary of African Christian Biography
• Passing of Dr Louise Pirouet

• 1928 births
• 2012 deaths
• Historians of Christianity
• Historians of Africa
• British women historians
• Makerere University alumni
• Fellows of Homerton College, Cambridge
• British historians of religion
• British expatriates in South Africa
• British expatriates in Uganda
• British expatriates in Kenya