Papers of Alexander Garden Fraser 1900-1962

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Papers of Alexander Garden Fraser 1900-1962

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12 boxes

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The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House

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Fraser, A.G. (Alexander Garden), 1873-1962

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Alexander Garden Fraser, CBE, was born on the 6 October 1873. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, and Trinity College, Oxford. He intended to read for the Bar but in his second year at Oxford changed to History with the intention of becoming a Colonial school teacher. On leaving Oxford Fraser spent a year working as Secretary to the Student Volunteer Missionary Union. In 1900 he was accepted by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) who sent him to Uga...

Prince of Wales College and School (Achimota, Ghana)

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Fraser, A.G. (Alexander Garden), 1873-1962

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Alexander Garden Fraser, CBE, was born on the 6 October 1873. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, and Trinity College, Oxford. He intended to read for the Bar but in his second year at Oxford changed to History with the intention of becoming a Colonial school teacher. On leaving Oxford Fraser spent a year working as Secretary to the Student Volunteer Missionary Union. In 1900 he was accepted by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) who sent him to Uga...

Friends' College Jamaica

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Newbattle Abbey College Scotland

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Trinity College (Kandy, Ceylon)

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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...