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'''Dr. Mary E, Rocke''' was a physician who was active in the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society based in Adyar, India]]. She spent many years at [[The Manor]] in Australia, attending to [[Charles Webster Leadbeater|C. W. Leadbeater]]. | '''Dr. Mary E, Rocke''' was a physician who was active in the [[Theosophical Society (Adyar)|Theosophical Society based in Adyar, India]]. She spent many years at [[The Manor]] in Australia, attending to [[Charles Webster Leadbeater|C. W. Leadbeater]]. | ||
Revision as of 21:35, 12 April 2026
Dr. Mary E, Rocke was a physician who was active in the Theosophical Society based in Adyar, India. She spent many years at The Manor in Australia, attending to C. W. Leadbeater.
Early life and education
Years in India
Clara Codd, who studied at Adyar from 1910-1911, wrote that the stimulation of being there often caused residents to become irritable or depressed. "Dr. Mary Rocke, a missionary doctor, who suddenly arrived to visit us, was a victim of the depression wave. She had to leave, but came back later. She had not been a member of the Society year, when the Master K.H. put her on probation. A charming Scots lady, normally gentle and sweet, suddenly grew so dictatorial and managing that we all had to laugh! It was so unlike her usual self We used to call such manifestations 'Adyaritis'."[1]
Years in Australia
Dr. Rocke was heavily engaged with the Order of the Star in the East, and served with T. H. Martyn as co-editor of The Star in the East, Australian Division, , 1918-1926.
She also wrote 21 articles under the name Mary Rocke in several other Theosophical magazines], according to the Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals, which also has 5 articles about her.
When visiting London, she stayed with George Rocke at Ivy Lodge, Hampstead Heath.[2]
Final years
Dr. Rocke remained in Sydney in her later years, but travelled frequently. She visited Hong Kong in 1925, joining other Theosophists like Annie Besant, Max Wardall, Irving S. Cooper, Flora Menzel, Jennie Doulgas, Mr. H. Cassell, Professor H. van Labberton, Professor R. K. Kulkarni to conduct 48 public lectures and 107 meetings. She spent establishing a Star center at the Hong Kong Lodge, giving talks and providing literature about the Order of the Star in the East and the Liberal Catholic Church.[3][4]
In July 1926, in Amsterdam, she addressed the Medical Week of the Summer School of the International University Association.[5]
in 1927, while travelling to Australia with Annie Besant and Jiddu Krishnamurti on the P. & O. liner China, Dr. Rocke fell down a companionway [steep steps], "overcome by an attack of cerebral hemorhage." She died instantaneously. "A requiem eucharist was celebrated on Sunday [October 23rd] at St. Alban's Liberal Catholic Church, Regent-street, of which she was formerly a member."[6]
Notes
- ↑ Clara Codd, So Rich a Life (Pretoria: Institute for Theosophical Publicity, 1956), 126.
- ↑ 1924 Passenger list of the Ventura, from Sydney to San Francisco.
- ↑ "China The Messenger" 14 no.1 (June, 1926): 13.
- ↑ "China" General Report of the Theosophical Society, 1925 (Adyar, Madras, India_Theosophical Publishing House, 1925), 23-24, 184-185.
- ↑ "Dr. Mary Rocke" Sydney Morning Herald (25 October 1927): 16.
- ↑ "Dr. Mary Rocke" Sydney Morning Herald (25 October 1927): 16.
