Letters of Lawrence and Caroline Hogg 1910-1964

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Letters of Lawrence and Caroline Hogg 1910-1964

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb237-coll-217

26 microfiches.

eng,

Edinburgh University Library

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Dixon Caroline May Missionary

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Hogg Lawrence 1882-1962

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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...

Young Mens Christian Association.

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Hogg, Lawrence A., 1882-1962

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Lawrence A. Hogg, was born in Edinburgh in 1882 the son of the missionary John Hogg. He worked for Adam and Charles Black, publishers, in Glasgow then went to India to organise the press and book distribution service of the YMCA. He remained in India between 1921 and 1943 and was based chiefly in Calcutta but travelled widely in North India. His work was a great success and he enabled many Indian writers to be published as well as publishing the books of Scottish missionaries such as J.N. Farquh...