Rev Henry Badger
Journal of Henry Badger, dated 1840-1848, with list of missionary deaths at rear. Pen and ink drawing of the interior of the Wesleyan Missionary Chapel at Bathurst, Gambia, dated c1849. Correspondence relating to the donation of these items in 1951.
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MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Africa/FBN 4 (fiche 115-121) |
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1840-1951 |
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File |
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| Main author: | Badger; Henry (1815-1877); ordained missionary |
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SOAS Archive |
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MMS.17.02.03.05 |
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Archive & Special Collections |
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Reference only |
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MMS/Special Series/Biographical/West Africa/FBN 4 (fiche 115-121) |
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MMS/17/02/03/05 |
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MMS/17/02/03/05 |
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MMS/17/02/03/05 |
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05 |
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Rev Henry Badger |
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1840-1951 |
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File |
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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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1 volume & 2 folders |
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Badger; Henry (1815-1877); ordained missionary |
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Badger; Henry (1815-1877); ordained missionary |
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Badger; Henry (1815-1877); ordained missionary |
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Badger; Henry (1815-1877); ordained missionary |
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Archive |
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Henry Badger was born at Bilston, Staffordshire [West Midlands] on 6th October 1815. He became a local preacher in the Walsall Circuit of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and was eventually accepted as an ordained minister. He was appointed to serve in Sierra Leone, departing on 13th October 1837, and arriving there on 19th November. In August 1842 he returned to England on furlough. During said furlough he married Sarah Hinsley (on 21 May 1843) and they departed England for Sierra Leone arriving in late July. Tragically, Mrs Badger's stay in Sierra Leone was short as she died at Hastings on 28th January 1844, just four days after having given birth to a baby girl. Rev Badger's continued commitment to education increased with him taking charge of the Institution for Training Native Teachers at King Tom's Point, Freetown, in April 1844. By the end of 1845 Rev Badger had become superintendent of the Sierra Leone district.
In late November 1845 Annie Rose Gordon (nee Challen, the widow of Rev E Gordon) arrived in Sierra Leone to work as a schoolmistress in Freetown (work she had undertaken in the West Indies even after her husband's death in 1835). Within weeks the Rev Badger had proposed to her and they were married on 6th January 1846. Both of them directed a great deal of energy towards their missionary work, in particular education, until their return to England in 1848. However, on 10th November they sailed from England aboard the 'Dale-Park' to take up new postings in the Gambia - Mrs Badger in education and Rev Badger as superintendent of the district - arriving there on 21st February 1849. Rev Badger also served as Colonial Chaplain, donating his wages to the missionary society. Their work continued until Mrs Badger's death at St Mary's on 13th November 1851, leaving two young children: Henry Wayte Badger (b.1847) - later to take the name of Henry Francis Gordon and, for a time, work as an agent of the Church Missionary Society in Mombasa, Kenya - and Mary Allen Badger (1850-1922). Rev Badger, not long after his wife's death, requested leave to return to England and departed in 1852.
Rev Badger was initially posted to Wimborne in Dorset, then Holsworthy in Devon and in a number of other chapels and circuits including Evesham in Worcestershire, Ludlow in Shropshire and St Neots in Cambridgeshire. On 23 October 1856 he married Hannah Marshall and they had four children - John Marshall (1857-1943), William Arthur (1859-1945), Joseph Herbert (b. 1861) & Anna (b c1863). In 1876 Rev Badger became a supernumerary and he died at Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire on 24th December 1877. |
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Donated to the Methodist Missionary Society by W J S Bayliss of Oxford in August 1951. |
| description |
Journal of Henry Badger, dated 1840-1848, with list of missionary deaths at rear. Pen and ink drawing of the interior of the Wesleyan Missionary Chapel at Bathurst, Gambia, dated c1849. Correspondence relating to the donation of these items in 1951. |
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GB/NNAF/P140705 |
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Creator of |
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7729885 2413451 2403846 2409306 |
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Open |
| scb_conditions_gov_access |
Only to be viewed on microfiche |
| scb_copyright |
Copyright held by Methodist Missionary SocietyApply to SOAS Archives & Special Collections in the first instance. |
| language |
English |
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English |
| scb_related_material |
Also within the records of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society is the official correspondence (with journal extracts) for Henry Badger for Sierra Leone (MMS/West Africa/Correspondence/Sierra Leone/FBN 25-26) and The Gambia (MMS/West Africa/Correspondence/Gambia/FBN 4). A small amount of correspondence by Mrs A R Gordon (later Badger) can also be found amongst these records. Furthermore, the synod minutes will mention their work, and the work of their colleagues, in the Sierra Leone (MMS/West Africa/Synod Minutes/Sierra Leone/FBN 7) and Gambia (MMS/West Africa/Synod Minutes/Gambia/FBN 1) districts. |
| note |
Some of the information in the 'Administrative & Biographical History' field was supplied by Dr Silke Strickrodt of the German Historical Institute, London, and Mr David Fisher. |
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Missionaries Missionary work Travel abroad |
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Missionaries Missionary work Travel abroad |
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Missionaries Missionary work Travel abroad |
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MMS |
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MMS.0017.0002.0003.0005 |