Papers of Reverend A. E. Richardson 1899-1904

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...

A. E. Richardson

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Albert Ernest Richardson (b. c. 1868) was educated at Oxford High School, London City Technical College and the University of Oxford. He obtained a B.A in 1894, M.A. in 1897 and B.D. in 1901. He initially offered his services as a missionary to the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in 1895 but this was deferred. He was ordained as a deacon in 1896 and as a priest in 1897 and between 1896 and 1898 was curate of St Clement's, Ipswich. In 1898 he was accepted as a missionary and left for...

Richardson Albert Ernest b c 1868

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