William Charles Willoughby Papers
Papers, 1883-1939, of and relating to William Charles Willoughby, comprising sketches of Urambo, 1883; building accounts, 1894, 1897; correspondence, 1897-1904, 1917, 1923-1924, relating to his missionary work and writing, comprising letters received and copies of letters sent; pass for travel, 190...
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CWM/LMS/Africa/Personal/Box 6 |
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1883-1939 |
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Sub-series |
| Format: | Archive |
| Main author: | Willoughby; William Charles (1857-1938); missionary |
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SOAS Archive |
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CWM.LMS.20.02.10 |
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archive |
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Archive & Special Collections |
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Archive & Special Collections |
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Reference only |
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CWM/LMS/Africa/Personal/Box 6 |
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CWM/LMS/20/02/10 |
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CWM/LMS/20/02/10 |
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CWM/LMS/20/02/10 |
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10 |
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William Charles Willoughby Papers |
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1883-1939 |
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Sub-series |
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7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File |
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2 boxes (part) |
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Willoughby; William Charles (1857-1938); missionary |
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Willoughby; William Charles (1857-1938); missionary |
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Willoughby; William Charles (1857-1938); missionary |
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Willoughby; William Charles (1857-1938); missionary |
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Archive |
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Born at Redruth, Cornwall, England, 1857; studied at Spring Hill Theological College, Birmingham; appointed by the London Missionary Society (LMS) to central Africa and ordained as a Congregational minister, 1882; returned home with malaria, 1883; resumed study at Spring Hill; minister in Perth, Scotland, 1885-1887; married Charlotte Elizabeth Pountney (d 1940), 1885; engaged in deputation work for the LMS, 1887-1889; minister in Brighton, 1889-1892; appointed LMS missionary to the Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana), 1892; went to Palapye to work among the Bamangwato of the Christian chief Khama (Kgama) III, 1893; accompanied Khama and other chiefs, Bathoen and Sebele, to England to help them oppose Cecil Rhodes’s demands for administrative rights over the Protectorate, 1895; a member of the South African Native Races Committee, London, 1900-1908; removed with the Bamangwato tribe to Serowe, 1903; appointed first principal of the proposed LMS Central School for Bechuanaland, 1903; established the school, named the Tiger Kloof Native Institution, on a farm near Vryburg in the Cape Colony; local correspondent of the Royal Anthropological Society from 1905; gave evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Assembly of the Cape of Good Hope, 1908; resigned as principal of Tiger Kloof owing to ill-health, 1915; responsible for Molepolole mission, 1914-1917; visited Australia and New Zealand on an LMS deputation, 1917; returned to England via America, 1918; Professor of African Missions, Kennedy School of Missions of Hartford Seminary, Conneticut, USA, 1919-1931; elected Vice-President of the Fourth International Congregational Council, 1920; awarded honorary doctorate of sacred theology, Hartford Seminary, on his retirement, 1931; settled in England; Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute; Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society; died in Birmingham, 1938.
See also:
William Charles Willoughby, Native Life on the Transvaal Border (London: Marshall & Co., 1900).
William Charles Willoughby, Tiger Kloof (1912).
William Charles Willoughby, Race problems in the New Africa: a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923).
William Charles Willoughby, The Soul of the Bantu: a Sympathetic Study of the Magico-Religious Practices and Beliefs of the Bantu Tribes of Africa (1928).
William Charles Willoughby, Nature Worship and Taboo (1932). |
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The papers were deposited with the London Missionary Society and form part of the special series of personal papers of individual LMS missionaries and officers. |
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Deposited on permanent loan with the records of the London Missionary Society by the Congregational Council for World Mission (later Council for World Mission) in 1973. |
| description |
Papers, 1883-1939, of and relating to William Charles Willoughby, comprising sketches of Urambo, 1883; building accounts, 1894, 1897; correspondence, 1897-1904, 1917, 1923-1924, relating to his missionary work and writing, comprising letters received and copies of letters sent; pass for travel, 1900; invitation, 1900; various undated typescript and manuscript notes by Willoughby, some for sermons and addresses, others including information about Africa and Tiger Kloof; The Congregationalist, Jan 1914, publishing a speech by Willoughby; undated article by Willoughby in an LMS newsletter; miscellaneous photographs of people and scenes in Africa; sketch map, undated; press cuttings, 1924-1932, of articles by Willoughby and reviews of his books on race relations in Africa and African beliefs and customs; correspondence and papers relating to Willoughby and Tiger Kloof, 1938-1939 and undated; press cuttings, 1924-1932, comprising reviews of Willoughby's books 'Race problems in the new Africa ... : a study of the relation of Bantu and Britons in those parts of Bantu Africa which are under British control' (1924), 'The Soul of the Bantu' (1928), and Nature-worship and taboo: further studies in "The soul of the Bantu" (1932).
Also includes 15 black & white photographs, including:
- 'Mirambo, King of Urambo, the "Robber Chief" of "the mountains of the moon", thought to be taken by Willoughby 1882/3 [N.B. negative of same image removed due to deterioration];
- 'Kisosera [?] and his wife. A Village Chief & medicine man at the door of his hut';
- 'Group of Wanyamwersi [Nyamwezi, or Wanyamwezi] women in fala costume ready for dance - drums & girls in foreground';
- 'The missionary [Willoughby] with a group of Wanyamwersi [Nyamwezi, or Wanyamwezi] around him at the door of the Mission House, Urambo';
- 'Kapya, son of Mwinyamsiriwa [?], Prime Minister of Urambo';
- Group of 3 African women, including Semane [?], Diely [?] 'Khama's youngest d.[daughter] by 1st family';
- unidentified missionary groups and individuals, including Willoughby |
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GB/SOASNAF/P579 GB/NNAF/P142698 GB/SOASNAF/C184 |
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Subject of Creator of Subject of |
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933860 7729889 9406051 953987 149658 149590 149172 |
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Missing |
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English |
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English |
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Unpublished handlist |
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The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS), including letters from individual missionaries, among them Willoughby (Ref: CWM/LMS Central Africa Incoming Correspondence); his candidate’s papers (Ref: CWM/LMS Candidates’ Papers Box 17 No 42); reports by Willoughby in Bechuanaland, 1895, 1902, 1908-1917 (Ref: CWM/LMS South Africa Reports Box 2 File 30, Box 3 File 37, Box 4 Files 43-4, 45, 47-51); photographs of William and Charlotte Willoughby and contemporary scenes, some taken by William Willoughby and appearing in his Native Life on the Transvaal Border (Ref: CWM/LMS Africa Photographs passim); photographs of William and Charlotte Willoughby and their family (Ref: CWM/LMS Missionary Portraits Box 6); and other papers relating to Tiger Kloof (Ref: CWM/LMS Africa Miscellaneous Boxes 19-28).
Birmingham University Information Services, Orchard Learning Resources Centre, holds 29 boxes of Willoughby's papers, 1874-1936, comprising files of general papers, bibliographic papers, papers relating to his evidence for the Commission on the Uniformity of Discipline in Native Churches in South Africa, and miscellaneous material (Ref: DA 49).
A collection of photographs by Willoughby of Bechuanaland Protectorate during the 1890s are held in the Botswana National Archives.
Other papers are held at Mansfield College Oxford; the Hartford Seminary Library, Connecticut, USA; and archives in Botswana |
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African cultures Clergy Congregationalism Congregationalists Cultural heritage Customs and traditions Educational management Education Financial administration Interethnic relations Literary criticism Mission schools Missionary work Protestantism Protestants Schools Travel abroad Missionaries |
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African cultures Clergy Congregationalism Congregationalists Cultural heritage Customs and traditions Educational management Education Financial administration Interethnic relations Literary criticism Mission schools Missionary work Protestantism Protestants Schools Travel abroad Missionaries |
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African cultures Clergy Congregationalism Congregationalists Cultural heritage Customs and traditions Educational management Education Financial administration Interethnic relations Literary criticism Mission schools Missionary work Protestantism Protestants Schools Travel abroad Missionaries |
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CWM |
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CWM.00LMS.0020.0002.0010 |