Waterworth, William Garfield ca. 1907-1960

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Waterworth, William Garfield ca. 1907-1960

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Waterworth William Garfield 1881-1956

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William Garfield Waterworth

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William Garfield Waterworth (WGW) was born in Yorkshire, England in September 1881. After serving as a Lay Evangelist in Northern Ireland he was accepted as a candidate for the Irish Methodist Ministry in 1909. Following the death of a missionary friend in the Gold Coast [Ghana] in 1910 he applied to the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society to be sent out as a missionary to West Africa. Probably the most significant event during his period of service was the mass conversion of Ashanti people to...

Opong Sampson fl 1919-1921

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Wesleyan methodist missionary society

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The work of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society began in Australia in 1818 when the Rev. Samuel Leigh arrived in Sydney to found a mission for convicts in New South Wales. Missionaries from each District were required to meet in an annual Synod, the minutes of which were sent home to London. From the description of Records of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, 1843 [manuscript]. [1843] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 277138718 British society which m...