Katherine Alice Salvin Tristram (1859-1948) was the daughter of Henry Baker Tristram (1822-1906) Canon of Durham. She was educated at Gilchrist School and London University and became a mathematical lecturer at Westfield College, Hampstead. She was accepted as a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary in 1888 and served with the Japan Mission where she was Principal of Bishop Poole's Memorial Girls School, Osaka. She resigned from service with the CMS in 1928.
Reference: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905). ; and unpublished additions to this register in the CMS archives
From the guide to the Papers of Katherine Tristram, 1887-1948, (University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department)
