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LMS Biographies, Part XIII

Reading this week:

  • Go As a River by Shelley Read
  • The Women I Think About at Night by Mia Kankimäki
  • Kongo: Power and Majesty by Alisa Lagamma
  • Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márques
  • Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

To make up for a whole bunch of blog posts, I am publishing in post format the biographies I compiled for my world-famous “The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society for all articles relating to their Central Africa Mission from 1876-1905.” I appreciate your patience!

Bernard Raleigh Turner
Born: July 4, 1878, at Hackney College
Died: 1943†

Mr. Bernard Turner apprenticed and worked as a builder, with additional experience in printing and brick and tile-making [May 1903], as well as studying at the Haberdasher’s Guild School† and taking courses in medicine and surgery at Livingstone College [May 1903]. Inspired by Rev. William Thomas, he became a missionary and departed for Central Africa on April 10, 1903 [May 1903]. He arrived at Kawimbe on June 24 [Aug 1903] and was appointed to Kambole on January 12, 1904 [Feb 1904]. There, he had building responsibilities and was in charge of Industrial Training. On June 27, 1905, he married Gertrude Alice Coates at Mbala (then Abercorn) [Aug 1905]. They worked in Central Africa until 1940†.

Gertrude Alice Turner, née Coates
Ms. Coates departed for Kambole on April 8, 1905 [May 1905] and married Mr. Bernard Turner on June 27, 1905 at Mbala (then Abercorn) [Aug 1905]. They worked in Central Africa until 1940†.

Dr. Harold Edgar Wareham, M.B., Ch.B.
Born: January 8, 1873, at Guildford
Died: 1955†

Dr. H.E. Wareham studied at George Watson’s College and worked in a mercantile office before studying Theology at Edinburgh Congregational Hall and Medicine at Edinburgh University [May 1902]. He married Rebecca Purves Stewart on April 19, 1902 [Jun 1902]. With Dr. Wareham appointed as a medical missionary, the couple departed England on April 30, 1902 [May 1902], slated for Kambole [Jan 1903]. The couple had a daughter on March 18, 1903 [May 1903]. In October they transferred to Kawimbe. They worked for the London Missionary Society until 1931 at Kawimbe and Mbereshi, and founded a station at Kafulwe in 1922.

Rebecca Purves Wareham, née Stewart
Ms. Stewart married Dr. H.E. Wareham on April 19, 1902 [Jun 1902] and departed with him for Central Africa on April 30, 1902 [May 1902]. The couple had a daughter on March 18, 1903 [May 1903]. In October they transferred to Kawimbe. They worked for the London Missionary Society until 1931 at Kawimbe and Mbereshi, and founded a station at Kafulwe in 1922.

Rev. David Williams
Born: February 10, 1856, at Llangadock, Carmarthenshire.
Died: September 24, 1881, at Urambo [Dec 1881]

Rev. D. Williams studied at Carmarthen and Western Colleges and was appointed to Urambo in the Central Africa Mission. He was ordained April 9, 1880 [May 1880] and departed England for Zanzibar on April 16 [May 1880]. He left Zanzibar June 14 [Aug 1880] and arrived at Urambo September 11, 1880 [Nov 1880].

Notes:

Unless otherwise noted, missionary biographies are derived firstly from London Missionary Society: A Register of Missionaries, Deputations, Etc. From 1796 to 1923, prepared by James Sibree, D.D., Fourth Edition, published by the London Missionary Society, London, 1923. Brackets with [Month Year] indicate the issue of The Chronicle of the London Missionary Society which records the preceding event. Information denoted by a dagger (†) is from Christian Missionaries and the Creation of Northern Rhodesia 1880-1924, by Robert I. Rotberg, published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1965. Other sources are denoted by a footnote.