Tucker Manuscripts 1828-1965
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Tucker John d 1873
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Tucker, John, 1719-1792
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Epithet: Perpetual Curate of Lannarth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0003d1 Epithet: of Add MS 32731 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0003c5 Epithet: of Salisbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000353.0x0003c8 Epithet: MP ...
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...