穆秉谦（Mary Emelia Moore，1869 年 3 月 7 日 – 1951 年 5 月 17 日）出生在新西兰南岛东南岸的港市达尼丁(Dunedin)。1893年，穆秉谦毕业于奥塔哥大学(Uaiversity of Otago)，并获得文学士学位。1896年，在宗教复兴运动的浪潮中，穆秉谦作为常驻老师前往中国宜昌苏格兰福音会创办的女子学校任教。同时，在宜昌她把教会、医院、学校办成了三位一体。“私立宜昌哀欧拿女子中学”和“仁济医院”就都由她主导创办。来到宜昌后，她积极推行新式教育的最初尝试，突破了“女子无才便是德”封建礼教的束缚，对重男轻女的封建思想形成的冲击与挑战，在宜昌开创了女子接受新式教育的先河，她毕生致力于改善中国妇女的生活条件。

Mary Emelia Moore (March 7, 1869 – May 17, 1951) was born in Dunedin, a port city on the southeastern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. In 1893, Mary Emelia Moore graduated from the University of Otago and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1896, in the wave of the religious revival movement, she went to Yichang, China, as a resident teacher to teach at a girls’ school founded by the Scottish Evangelical Association. Meanwhile, in Yichang, she integrated the church, hospital, and school into one entity. She took the lead in founding “Private Yichang Aiona Girls’ Middle School” and “Renji Hospital”. After arriving in Yichang, she actively made the initial attempts to promote new – style education, breaking through the bondage of the feudal ethics that “a woman without talent is virtuous”, challenging the feudal ideology of preferring sons over daughters, and setting a precedent for girls in Yichang to receive new – style education. She dedicated her entire life to improving the living conditions of Chinese women.