Papers of Reverend and Mrs. S. Hobbs and of Reverend and Mrs. H. Maundrell, CMS Missionaries 1842-1886

Hobbs Stephen 1815-1893

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Hobbs Mary 1880-1866

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Hobbs and Maundrell Families

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Stephen Hobbs (1815-1893) was accepted as a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary in 1839. He was ordained as a priest in the same year and went to Palamcotta, Tinnevelly, South India. He was stationed at Nallur in 1842, Satthankullam in 1843 and from 1854 at Dohnavur and Suviseshapuram. While serving in India, in 1842, he married Mary Eleanor Barton and they had a daughter, Eliza. In 1856 he was transferred to Mauritius and was stationed firstly at Plaines Wilhelms and then in...

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...

Maundrell Herbert 1840-1896

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