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See also:CROWTHER, See also:SAMUEL ADJAI (18o9?—1895) , See also:African missionary-See also:bishop, was See also:born at Ochugu in the Yoruba See also:country,
1 The duchy of See also:Lancaster, which was the private See also:property of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. before he ascended the See also:throne, was assured to him and his heirs by a See also:special See also:act of See also:parliament. In the first See also:year of Henry VII, it was See also:united to the See also:crown, but as a See also:separate property.
See also:West See also:Africa, and was sold into See also:slavery in 1821. Next year he was rescued, with many other captives, by H.M. See also:ship " Myrmidon," and was landed at Sierra Leone. Educated there in a missionary school, he was baptized on the 1th of See also:December 1825. In See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he became a teacher at Furah See also:Bay, and afterwards an energetic missionary on the See also:Niger. He came to See also:England in 1842, entered the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church Missionary See also:College at See also:Islington, and in See also:June 1843 was ordained by Bishop See also:Blomfield. Returning to' Africa, he laboured with See also:great success amongst his own See also:people and afterwards at See also:Abeokuta. Here he devoted himself to the preparation of school-books, and the See also:translation of the See also:Bible and See also:Prayer-See also:Book into Yoruba and other dialects. He also established a See also:trade in See also:cotton, and improved the native See also:agriculture. In 1857 he commenced the third expedition up the Niger, and after labouring with varied success, returned to England and was consecrated, on St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's See also:Day 1864, first bishop of the Niger territories. Before See also:long a commencement was.made of the See also:missions to the See also:delta of the Niger, and between 1866 and 1884 congregations of Christians were formed at Bonny, See also:Brass and New See also:Calabar, but the progress made was slow and subject to many impediments. In 1888 the See also:tide of persecution turned, and several chiefs embraced See also:Christianity, and on Crowther's return from another visit to England, the large See also:iron church known as " St See also:Stephen's See also:cathedral " was opened. Crowther died of See also:paralysis on the 31st of December 1891, having displayed as a missionary for many years untiring See also:industry, great See also:practical See also:wisdom, and deep piety.
End of Article: CROWTHER, SAMUEL ADJAI (18o9?—1895)
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