(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.

Louise Pirouet

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.

Louise Pirouet

References

External links

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

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