Papers of Eleanor Harrison 1896-circa 1938

Harrison-Buck, Eleanor

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Eleanor Jane Harrsion (1872-1930) of Cookley, Kidderminster was formerly an assistant in a library. She was accepted as a missionary with the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in 1896 and served with the Fukien Mission in China until 1922. She was initially stationed at Kosangche. In 1902, she went to Tangtau on the island of Hai-tan to open a new station. She returned home in 1922 because of family circumstances but rejoined the CMS in 1929. She was murdered by bandits in China in 19...

Fukien Mission China

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Harrison Eleanor Jane 1872-1930

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Church Missionary Society.

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The Church Missionary Society was founded in 1799 by a small group of laymen and clergy of the Church of England. It was originally named the Society for Missions to Africa and the East. Its purpose was to enable the Church to send missionaries to Africa and other heathen areas. Henry M. Stanley, following his discovery of the missionary explorer, David Livingstone, was instrumental in opening the Uganda Mission. His famous letter, published in the Daily Telegraph in 1875, prompted a contributio...