Rev Samuel Broadbent papers

Papers, 1815-1894, of and relating to Samuel Broadbent, comprising his ordination certificate, 13 November 1815; notes for a sermon preached in Greetland before leaving for Ceylon [Sri Lanka], 1815; letters between Rev & Mrs Broadbent and family & friends, 1818-1872; printed Encyclopaedia of...

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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/South Africa/FBN 10 (fiche 394-418)
Date(s) of creation: 1815-1894
Level: Sub-Sub-Series
Format: Archive           
Main author: Broadbent; Samuel (1794-1867); ordained missionary
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title Rev Samuel Broadbent papers
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author Broadbent; Samuel (1794-1867); ordained missionary
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scb_admin_history Born at Baistow, Skircoat, near Halifax, Yorkshire, England, 27th October 1794; converted in early life and began to evangelise; ordained, 1815; Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society missionary to Ceylon [Sri Lanka], 1815-1820; missionary to southern Africa, 1820-1826; his health failed and he returned to England; minister at Penzance, Cornwall, 1826-1827; Ashby-de-la-Zouche, 1827-1830; Hereford, 1830-1833; Douglas, Isle of Man, 1833-1836; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1836-1839; Carlisle, 1839-1841; Newark, 1841-1844; Bramley, 1844-1846; Doncaster, 1846-1848; Warrington, 1848-1851; Grimsby, 1851-1854; Midsomer Norton, 1854-1857; Retford, 1857-1859; Darlington, 1859; became a supernumerary and settled at Lytham, continuing preaching and pastoral work, 1863; married firstly Louisa Wynn (1801-1832) and secondly Sarah Burton (c1804-1865); he died at Lytham, Lancashire, on 3rd June 1867. Further Reading: Allcock, J W, Centenary memorial to the Rev. Samuel Broadbent, pioneer missionary of the Transvaal, 1823 (1922); Broadbent, Memoir of the Rev. Samuel Broadbent. By his daughter (1870); Broadbent, S, The missionary martyr of Namaqualand. Memorials of the Rev. William Threlfall, late Wesleyan missionary in South Africa; who was murdered in Great Namaqualand, together with two native converts, Jacob Links and Johannes Jager (1860); Broadbent, S, Louisa Frances : or, An authentic account of the escape of an Anglo-Indian girl, from the arrogant claims of Romanism, in consequence of the rashness and cruelty of a priest of Goa, East Indies (1865); Broadbent, S, A narrative of the first introduction of Christianity amongst the Barolong tribe of Bechuanas, South Africa : with a brief summary of the subsequent history of the Wesleyan mission to the same people (1865); Mears, Mason & Evans, Methodist missionaries no. 4. Herbert Louis Bishop, John William Househam, the Bechuana mission, Samuel Broadbent, Thomas Laidman Hodgson, James Archbell, John Edwards, Thomas Jenkins, James Scott (c1958).
description Papers, 1815-1894, of and relating to Samuel Broadbent, comprising his ordination certificate, 13 November 1815; notes for a sermon preached in Greetland before leaving for Ceylon [Sri Lanka], 1815; letters between Rev & Mrs Broadbent and family & friends, 1818-1872; printed Encyclopaedia of Knowledge [before 1826] belonging to Broadbent, vestige of his possessions destroyed at Maquassie in 1826, with a manuscript note by him [after 1826] concerning its history; volume containing manuscript English-Bechuana vocabulary and Lord's Prayer, undated, and other loose Bechuana texts; South African scalping knife; account [after 1832] of the life of Louisa Frances Broadbent; notes of Broadbent's journey to southern Ireland on missionary deputation with the Rev W Toase, 1833; printed article by Broadbent on agriculture in South Africa, 'Incidental results of Christian Missions', 1850; Dorothy Hinckman's manuscript account of the 'Maria Mail Boat', 1852; printed map of south-eastern Africa, 1857; 3 volume manuscript entitled 'Reminiscences and Incidents of Missionary Travell in South Africa' by Samuel Broadbent, undated; manuscript entitled 'Autobiography of Revd S Broadbent', undated; file of autobiographical notes, one set of which entitled 'Memorials', undated; photograph of Samuel Broadbent, unframed, and another, framed (with copy negative), both undated; manuscript copies [19th century] from letters of Miss Broadbent concerning the last hours of Samuel Broadbent, 1867; remembrance card for Samuel Broadbent, 1867; the Rev T A Chalker's 'The Story of an African Mission', from the Methodist Record (1894), mentioning Broadbent; undated photograph of the gravestone of Samuel and Sarah Broadbent; manuscript transcript [19th century] of the epitaph on the gravestone of Louisa Frances Broadbent.
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scb_copyright Copyright probably held by Methodist Missionary Society.
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language English
Tswana
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Tswana
scb_copies Probably MMS copyright. Apply to SOAS Archives & Special Collections in first instance.
scb_related_material Official correspondence by Samuel Broadbent whilst a missionary in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] and South Africa can be found within the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society archive. Correspondence from the Ceylon districts can be found within MMS/Ceylon/Correspondence/FBN 1. Correspondence written from the districts within which he worked in South Africa can be found amongst MMS/South Africa/Correspondence/General/FBN 1, MMS/South Africa/Correspondence/Albany/FBN 2 & MMS/South Africa/Correspondence/Cape/FBN 7. Furthermore, the synod minutes should detail his work, and that of his colleagues, in South Africa (MMS/South Africa/Synod Minutes/FBN 1). There are no extant synod minutes for Ceylon [Sri Lanka] between 1815 and 1820. The odd letter by Samuel Broadbent can be found within the Steele Collection (MMS/Special Series/Various Papers/FBN 46).
scb-callnumber-first Autobiographies
Agriculture
Clergy
Encyclopaedias
Evangelism
Lexicography
Methodism
Methodists
Missionaries
Missionary deputations
Missionary work
Protestantism
Protestants
Travel abroad
Vocabularies
Wives of missionaries
topic Autobiographies
Agriculture
Clergy
Encyclopaedias
Evangelism
Lexicography
Methodism
Methodists
Missionaries
Missionary deputations
Missionary work
Protestantism
Protestants
Travel abroad
Vocabularies
Wives of missionaries
topic_facet Autobiographies
Agriculture
Clergy
Encyclopaedias
Evangelism
Lexicography
Methodism
Methodists
Missionaries
Missionary deputations
Missionary work
Protestantism
Protestants
Travel abroad
Vocabularies
Wives of missionaries
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