Ap­ril 12, 1911, New Bar­net, Hert­ford­shire, Eng­land.

Daughter of Sal­va­tion Ar­my (SA) Bri­ga­dier Gen­er­al Will­iam J. Ri­chards, Mir­i­am grew up in Java and Korea. She served at var­i­ous SA lo­ca­tions, in­clud­ing Ches­ter-Le-Street, the Young Peo­ple’s De­part­ment at the In­ter­na­tion­al Head­quar­ters, the North­ern Ter­ri­tor­i­al Head­quar­ters in Leeds, the In­ter­na­tion­al Train­ing Col­lege (1938-44), on Wo­men’s So­cial Work (1944-55), and as ed­it­or of the Home League Ex­change (1955-71). She reached the SA rank of Lieu­ten­ant Col­o­nel, and re­tired in 1971. Her works in­clude:

• It Began with An­drews: The Sa­ga of a Me­di­cal Miss­ion (London: Salvationist Publishing and Supplies, 1971)
• The Mas­ter Called: The Sto­ry of A. J. Gil­liard (Lon­don: Sal­va­tion Ar­my)
• Workers To­ge­ther (Lon­don: Sal­va­tion Ar­my, 1970)

• Taylor, p. 399

1. Beyond the Far­thest Bounds of Earth (1963)
2. Not On­ly, Lord, on That Great Day (1958)
3. What Can I Say to Cheer a World of Sor­row (1938)
4. When Christ Drew Near to Dwell with Men (1967)