Papers of Vivyan Henry Donnithorne 1916-1959
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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...
Vivyan Henry Donnithorne
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Vivyan Henry Donnithorne (1886-1968) served in 11th Hampshire Regiment during First World War. He married Gladys Ingram (d. 1977) in 1916 and they became Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionaries to Western China in 1919 until 1945. They then served as missionaries with the West China Evangelistic Band at Pehpei 1943-1951 and then in Hong Kong from 1953. Reference: University of Birmingham, Special Collections Department, Online Archive Catalogue (http://calm.bham.ac....
West China Evangelistic Band
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Donnithorne Vivyan Henry 1886-1968
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