Missionaries
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Archdeacon Robert Henry Walker in Uganda
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045T
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs measuring approximately 105 x 75 mm or 75 x 105 mm and arranged two to a page. Annotations written on paper (presumably by Archdeacon Walker) are stuck into the album. The annotations have been transcribed as found, and contain language which is outdated, inappropriate and inaccurate. They have been retained to reflect to the context of creation of the album.
The photographs show groups of people and domestic life in Uganda, including: crossing a swamp, a...
Dates:
[taken in early 1900 or before]
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union: Records and Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8722
Scope and Contents
Minutes of the committees and meetings; accounts; records of members and speakers, including membership record cards; correspondence about meetings and speakers; files of the Mission Committee, President, Vice-President and the secretaries; and miscellaneous files concerning the constitution, the President, activities and literature, with catalogues of tape recordings, miscellaneous photographs and letters, and Basil Atkinson's memoirs. Also includes 2 boxes of correspondence about meetings...
Dates:
1978-1986 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
John Percy Nickisson: copy of diary
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 157
Scope and Contents
Copy of a diary titled, 'From Mombasa to Mengo being an account of the Journey of 750 miles thro' Central Africa made by the missionary part under Bishop Tucker 1892'. Typed copy, with corrections and comments added by H.B. Thomas. Nickisson was a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary in East Africa. According to the Europeans in East Africa database, Nickisson set off for Mengo with Bishop Tucker in September 1892. He died at Nassa of blackwater fever in June 1896.
Dates:
1892-1893 [date of copy unknown]
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Owen Emeric Vidal, Bishop of Sierra Leone: drawings, sketch maps and related papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 147
Scope and Contents
A collection of sketches and drawings relating the episcopate of Owen Emeric Vidal, first Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone and West Africa, between 1852 and his death on a sea voyage back to Sierra Leone in 1854. The sketches and drawings are initialled by various hands - O.E.V. or O.E.S.L. for Bishop Vidal; A.A.V. for his wife, Anne Adelaide Vidal (nee Hoare); M.A.H., who has not been identified but was possibly a member of the Hoare family. Captions have been enclosed in single quotation...
Dates:
1852-1854, 1960s
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact rcs@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Papers of Rev. Francois Coillard
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 227
Scope and Contents
Letters and other papers relating to the work of Francois Coillard, a French missionary, in Barotseland at the court of Lewanika (also known as Lubosi Lewanika or Lewanika I), the Lozi Litunga or King of Barotseland, and the background to the events of 1890 which brough Barotseland under British protection through the aegis of the British South Africa Company. Also includes material relating to the publication of 'Lewanika of the Barotse' and manuscript copies of the journal of William...
Dates:
1877 - 1942
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sir John Milner Gray: Papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7739
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a wide range of correspondence and papers relating to the Gambia, Kenya, Kilwa [Kilwa Sultanate] and Pemba, Tanganyika [i.e. Tanzania], Uganda, Zanzibar, West Africa, and other parts of the continent. Some of the topics covered are ethnic groups and Indigenous peoples, languages, the slave trade, the Portuguese colonization in Africa, and archaeology. There are articles by J. Schacht, Emin Pasha, Gervase Mathew, M. Posnansky, and others on Africa, as well as...
Dates:
1950 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library