Photograph album containing images of the Meru

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.

Archive & Special Collections MMS/17/02/11/01/03/02 Open

Order number: MMS Box 1393
Date(s) of creation: mid-late 1930s
Level: Item
Format: Archive           
Main author: Gerrard; Herbert Shaw (1886-1969); ordained missionary, doctor

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item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with MMS Box 1393
callnumber MMS/17/02/11/01/03/02
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title Photograph album containing images of the Meru
scb_date_creation mid-late 1930s
scb_level Item
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scb_extent 1 volume
author Gerrard; Herbert Shaw (1886-1969); ordained missionary, doctor
author_facet Gerrard; Herbert Shaw (1886-1969); ordained missionary, doctor
authorStr Gerrard; Herbert Shaw (1886-1969); ordained missionary, doctor
author_letter Gerrard; Herbert Shaw (1886-1969); ordained missionary, doctor
format Archive
scb_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.
scb_custodial_history Ms R Alison Lewis acquired this item upon the death of A J Hopkins in 1965
scb_acquisition Gift, accepted on behalf of the Methodist Church, from Ms R Alison Lewis, September 2009
description 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.
scb_related_name_code GB/SOASNAF/P1237
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright 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
scb_file_number 2
scb_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).
hierarchy_top_id_raw MMS
hierarchy_sequence MMS.0017.0002.0011.0001.0003.0002

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