| Order number: |
MMS Box 1393
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| Summary: |
No captions but photographs taken by Rev Dr H S Gerrard in and around Maua, Kenya. Images depicted include: mission property, missionaries, Hopkins preaching, portraits of individual Meru males and females.
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| Main author: |
Gerrard; Herbert Shaw (1886-1969); ordained missionary, doctor |
| Extent: |
1 volume
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| Admin history: |
Herbert Shaw Gerrard was born on 25 August 1886 at Swinton, Lancashire, into a devout Primitive Methodist family. After studying at Elmfield College, York, he studied medicine at Manchester University graduating in 1910 with further training at Hull Royal Infirmary. Ministerial training took place at Hartley College finishing in 1915. He married Doris Watson (1895-1971) at Clowes Chapel, Hull, on 17 March 1915.
In 1915 the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society posted him to Kasenga, Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], to serve as a medical missionary with both medical and pastoral duties. He served both the indigenous population as well as the mission staff treating a very wide range of medical conditions. After 16 years at Kasenga he relocated to Kanchindu and served for a further three years in Northern Rhodesia [Zambia]. In 1934 he was transferred to Maua, Kenya, where he continued his medical and ministerial work but now for the recently created Methodist Missionary Society.
In 1941 he left Kenya and returned to England eventually setting up a practice in Hazel Grove, Stockport [Cheshire]. Rev Dr Gerrard died in Stockport on 23 August 1969 whilst his wife, Doris, died in Oxford on 11 October 1971. |
Herbert Shaw Gerrard was born on 25 August 1886 at Swinton, Lancashire, into a devout Primitive Methodist family. After studying at Elmfield College, York, he studied medicine at Manchester University graduating in 1910 with further training at Hull Royal Infirmary. Ministerial training took place at Hartley College finishing in 1915. He married Doris Watson (1895-1971) at Clowes Chapel, Hull, on 17 March 1915.
In 1915 the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society posted him to Kasenga, Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], to serve as a medical missionary ... View more |
| Custodial history: |
Ms R Alison Lewis acquired this item upon the death of A J Hopkins in 1965 |
| Acquisition: |
Gift, accepted on behalf of the Methodist Church, from Ms R Alison Lewis, September 2009
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| Access status: |
Open
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| Copyright: |
Copyright held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes |
| User restrictions: |
For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
| File number: |
2
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| Publications: |
Some of the images are reproduced in 'Kingdom Overseas' as well as in 'Africa calling. A medical missionary in Kenya and Zambia' by John W Gerrard (Radcliffe Press, 2001).
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| Format: |
Archive
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