{"id":2190,"date":"2019-10-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2019-05-31T07:33:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:33:21","slug":"life-of-george-grenfell-congo-missionary-and-pioneer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missiology.org.uk\/blog\/life-of-george-grenfell-congo-missionary-and-pioneer\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of George Grenfell: Congo Missionary and Pioneer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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<\/a> for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Hawker [1857-1932], <\/a>The Life of George Grenfell.<\/a><\/em> 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]<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Contents<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  • Introduction<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
    1. Early Years<\/strong><\/li>
    2. College Days<\/strong><\/li>
    3. At the Cameroons<\/strong><\/li>
    4. At the Cameroons (continued)<\/strong><\/li>
    5. Pioneering in the Lower Congo<\/strong><\/li>
    6. The Coming of the ‘Peace’<\/strong><\/li>
    7. The Coming of the ‘Peace’ (continued)<\/strong><\/li>
    8. Boat Journey to the Equator<\/strong><\/li>
    9. The First Voyage of the ‘Peace’<\/strong><\/li>
    10. From Autumn, 1884, to Autumn, 1887<\/strong><\/li>
    11. From Autumn, 1884, to Autumn, 1887 (continued)<\/strong><\/li>
    12. Forward Movements on the Upper River<\/strong><\/li>
    13. The Seizure of the ‘Peace’ and the Coming of the ‘Goodwill’<\/strong><\/li>
    14. The Lunda Expedition<\/strong><\/li>
    15. Bolobo and Yakusu\u20141893 to 1896<\/strong><\/li>
    16. Missions and Social Results<\/strong><\/li>
    17. ‘In Journeyings Often’<\/strong><\/li>
    18. Up the Aruwimi<\/strong><\/li>
    19. Illness and Last Furlough<\/strong><\/li>
    20. Letters to His Children<\/strong><\/li>
    21. Balked by the State<\/strong><\/li>
    22. To Yalemba at Last!<\/strong><\/li>
    23. ‘The Death of “Tata” Finished’<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      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\u00b7 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\u2026<\/p>Page vii<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      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. 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