Papers of Archdeacon T. J. Dennis 1893-1917

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Papers of Archdeacon T. J. Dennis 1893-1917

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb150-cms/acc089

1 vol., 23 files, 1 doc.

eng,

ibo,

University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department

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SNAC Resource ID: 6282873

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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...

Dennis, Thomas John, 1869-1917

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According to The Law List (1855, p. 232), Thomas John Dennis had an office in Barnstaple, Devonshire. From the description of Book of forms, ca. 1850. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 78728163 ...

Archdeacon T. J. Dennis

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Thomas John Dennis (1869-1917) of St Leonards, a gardener, was accepted as a missionary by the CMS in 1893. He went to West Africa and was assigned to the Niger Mission. However, he remained for some time in Sierra Leone as acting Vice-Principal of Fourah Bay College. He was ordained a priest by the Bishop of Sierra Leone in 1894 and then proceeded to the Niger where he served at Onitsha. He was appointed as archdeacon of the Upper Niger in 1905. In 1908, he went to open a new stati...