
Calne Girl Elizabeth Moir Tenduf-La (1959) has been awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty The Queen in her Birthday Honours List 2014, for her services to British education and the teaching of English in Sri Lanka.
Ms Moir founded the Colombo International School (CIS) in Sri Lanka in 1982, and in 1990 was requested by President Premadasa to run a multimedia English language programme on television and radio. Elizabeth then founded the British School in Colombo in 1994, and, persuaded by a group of parents, started the Elizabeth Moir School in 1995. The school has enjoyed enormous academic success, and Ms Moir's students have gone on to universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL and Imperial College in the UK and to Harvard, Yale, MIT and Princeton in the US.
"This is a huge honour, and in my case too it is very much a shared honour which recognises the work and commitment of so many people especially the inspired vision of my late husband Kesang Tenduf La. it is wonderful that we should be honoured for doing what we all enjoy so much and that this in itself inspires others. Miss Gibbins inspired our generation with her work and that this has given us the confidence to follow in her footsteps."
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