Papers of Miss Emily Ruth Spriggs 1897-1940

Emily Ruth Spriggs

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Emily Ruth Spriggs (b. c. 1872) of Gosport was accepted as a Church Missionary Society missionary in 1897 and left for service with the East Africa Mission in the same year. She served in Tanganyika, at Mamboya, Kongwa, Berega and Dodoma. Reference: University of Birmingham, Special Collections Department, Online Archive Catalogue (http://calm.bham.ac.uk/DServeA/). Accessed May 2002. From the guide to the Papers of Miss Emily Ruth Spriggs, 1897-1940, (Univers...

Spriggs Emily Ruth b c 1872

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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...