Life of George Grenfell: Congo Missionary and Pioneer

This is a detailed and well-illustrated biography of the George Grenfell, pioneer missionary to the Congo. The endpiece is an extremely detailed map of Equatorial West Africa. My thanks to Redcliffe College for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation.

George Hawker [1857-1932], The Life of George Grenfell. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1909. pp.587. [Click to visit the George Grenfell page for this the download link to this title and other material on this missionary]

Contents

• Introduction

1. Early Years
2. College Days
3. At the Cameroons
4. At the Cameroons (continued)
5. Pioneering in the Lower Congo
6. The Coming of the ‘Peace’
7. The Coming of the ‘Peace’ (continued)
8. Boat Journey to the Equator
9. The First Voyage of the ‘Peace’
10. From Autumn, 1884, to Autumn, 1887
11. From Autumn, 1884, to Autumn, 1887 (continued)
12. Forward Movements on the Upper River
13. The Seizure of the ‘Peace’ and the Coming of the ‘Goodwill’
14. The Lunda Expedition
15. Bolobo and Yakusu—1893 to 1896
16. Missions and Social Results
17. ‘In Journeyings Often’
18. Up the Aruwimi
19. Illness and Last Furlough
20. Letters to His Children
21. Balked by the State
22. To Yalemba at Last!
23. ‘The Death of “Tata” Finished’

Introduction

When I was requested by the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society to write the biography of my friend and former fellow-student, George Grenfell, it was stipulated that the volume should contain a section of about a hundred pages to be contributed by an expert (Sir Harry Johnston, if possible), in which the scientific side of Grenfell’s work should be duly discussed and appraised. Subsequently, Sir Harry Johnston· consented to undertake this task. But when Grenfell’s papers and journals came to hand, it was apparent that two or three chapters included in a general biography would be quite inadequate for the worthy treatment of Grenfell’s scientific achievements. It was therefore arranged that Sir Harry Johnston should write a separate ,vork, an arrangement in which I cordially concurred.
That work has been published under the title George Grenfell and the Congo, and has secured the high encomiums of competent critics…

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