Elija Hoole journals
Journals of Elijah Hoole describing his missionary work and life in India.
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1820-1829 |
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Sub-series |
| Format: | Archive |
| Main author: | Hoole; Elijah (1798-1872); ordained missionary, mission administrator, linguist and orientalist |
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SOAS Archive |
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archive |
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Archive & Special Collections |
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Reference only |
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MMS/17/02/06/07 |
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MMS/17/02/06/07 |
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MMS/17/02/06/07 |
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07 |
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Elija Hoole journals |
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1820-1829 |
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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 volumes |
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Hoole; Elijah (1798-1872); ordained missionary, mission administrator, linguist and orientalist |
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Hoole; Elijah (1798-1872); ordained missionary, mission administrator, linguist and orientalist |
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Hoole; Elijah (1798-1872); ordained missionary, mission administrator, linguist and orientalist |
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Hoole; Elijah (1798-1872); ordained missionary, mission administrator, linguist and orientalist |
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Archive |
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Born in Manchester, England, 3rd February 1798; educated at Manchester grammar school, 1809-1813; assisted in his father's shoemaking business; following private study, became a probationer for the Wesleyan ministry, 1818; appointed by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (WMMS), 1819; lost his possessions in a shipwreck on the way to Madras [Chennai], India; arrived, 1820; a pioneer missionary in the area, serving at Bangalore [Bengaluru], Negapatam [Nagapattinam], Madras [Chennai], and Seringapatam [Srirangapatna]; elected a member of the committee for revising the Tamil version of the Bible, 1822; his Tamil translations included a hymnbook, 1825; left India owing to ill-health, 1828; returned to England, 1829; employed at Missionary House, London, 1829-1830; superintendent of schools in Ireland, 1830-1834; returned to London, 1834; Assistant Secretary of the WMMS, 1834-1836; married Elizabeth (d 1880), daughter of the lockmaker Charles Chubb, 1835; WMMS General Secretary, 1836-1872; Honorary Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews and of the Home for Asiatics, London; Doctor of Divinity; died on 17th June 1872.
Further Reading:
Hoole, E, Personal narrative of a mission to the south of India, from 1820 to 1828 (1829);
Hoole, E, Madras, Mysore, and the south of India: or, A personal narrative of a mission to those countries from MDCCCXX to MDCCCXXVIII (1844);
Hoole, E, The year-book of missions: containing a comprehensive account of missionary societies, British, continental and American, with a particular survey of the stations arranged in geographical order (1847);
Hoole, E, Dureisani-Tamil-puttagam = The lady's Tamil book : containing the morning and evening services and other portions of the Book of Common Prayer, in Romanized Tamil, accompanied by the English version in parallel columns, together with an Anglo-Tamil grammar and vocabulary (1859);
Telford, J, Makers of our missions. Pages from the lives of Methodist missionaries (1895). |
| description |
Journals of Elijah Hoole describing his missionary work and life in India. |
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GB/NNAF/P218308 |
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Creator of |
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6269131 2635167 1269750 7729895 7646145 7627073 1277333 |
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Open |
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Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes |
| scb_use_restrictions |
For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
| language |
English |
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English |
| scb_related_material |
Official correspondence by Elija Hoole whilst a missionary in India can be found within the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society archive (MMS/India/Correspondence/Madras/FBN 20). Furthermore, the synod minutes will detail his work, and that of his colleagues, in the Madras district where they served (MMS/India/Synod Minutes/FBN 1).
For his period as one of the Secretaries of the WMMS there is correspondence in the outgoing correspondence (notably MMS/Home/Correspondence/Outgoing/FBN 24A) as well as information on the work he was involved in amongst the relevant committee minutes. A few letters by Hoole can be found within the Steele Collection (MMS/Special Series/Various Papers/FBN 46).
Lastly, there is an agreement made in 1866 between Hoole and Messrs Hall & Co for the building of a three-masted schooner [possibly the 'John Wesley II'] extant (MMS/Special Series/Ships' Papers/FBN 50). |
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Clergy Evangelism Linguists Methodism Methodists Missionaries Missionary work Protestantism Protestants Travel abroad |
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Clergy Evangelism Linguists Methodism Methodists Missionaries Missionary work Protestantism Protestants Travel abroad |
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Clergy Evangelism Linguists Methodism Methodists Missionaries Missionary work Protestantism Protestants Travel abroad |
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MMS |
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MMS.0017.0002.0006.0007 |