Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under William Ellis
London Missionary Society
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Stickney Ellis | The London Missionary Society
commissioned SSE
's husband, William Ellis
, to travel to Madagascar, where a campaign against British Christian missionaries was producing hundreds of grisly deaths. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Stickney Ellis | William Ellis
, born into the labouring class, was a self-educated man of high attainments. He had worked as a foreign missionary with the London Missionary Society
in Tahiti and Hawaii. In 1830 he... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Lamb | Mary referred to her work as poor little baby-stories, in the context of her own inability (she said in a letter) to write about anything else except her current work. Lamb, Charles, and Mary Lamb. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb. Marrs, Edwin J.Editor , Cornell University Press, 1975. 2: 229 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Montefiore | The novel's two main characters, Reuben Simeon and Caleb Ascher, are the eldest sons of their respective families, and as such are responsible for providing for the members of their household. Before the novel opens... |
Timeline
1795
The London Missionary Society
was founded.
1819
Prince Pomare of Tahiti built a massive Christian church with the help of members of the London Missionary Society
; he was baptised there in front of 4,000 citizens, and Christianity spread throughout the island.
1820
1820
1820
David Jones
of the Methodist London Missionary Society
travelled to Antananarivo in Madagascar, to spread the word of Christianity.
1835
The accession of a new ruler in Madagascar, Queen Ranavalona
, brought a violent campaign against the missionaries of the Methodist London Missionary Society
, which had been active there since 1820.
29 March 1842
The annual children's meeting of the London Missionary Society
drew between five and six thousand children.
1870
The first representatives of the London Missionary Society
arrived in New Guinea.
26 May 1891
The directors' meeting of the London Missionary Society
was first attended by women.