Papers of Arthur Le Feuvre 1854-1946
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Feuvre Arthur Le fl 1881
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Arthur Le Feuvre
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Arthur Le Feuvre of Ceylon, a planter, was accepted as a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary and was sent, as a lay evangelist, to North India in 1889. He was a member of first Band of Associated Evangelists with two other CMS missionaries, S. W. Donne and P. H. Shaul. He returned to England on furlough and was ordained as deacon in 1895. He subsequently became a railway and planter's chaplain in Bengal and Ceylon from 1908 until 1922. Reference: Register of missi...
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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...