Papers of Reverend Henry Townsend 1836-1871

Townsend, Henry

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Epithet: Churchwarden of St Clement Danes British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000266.0x00027a Epithet: landwaiter, Custom House, Dublin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000266.0x00027b Epithet: Reverend; of Honington Hall British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10000000...

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...

Townsend, Henry, 1815-1886

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