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Name: FORSTER, Edward Wood (Dr.)
Birth Date: 5.3.1843 Newcastle upon Tyne, bapt. 1.4.1843 Newcastle upon Tyne
Death Date: 26 July 1952 [sic] Gateshead
First Date: 1875
Last Date: 1876
Profession: CMS missionary
Area: Mombasa
Married: 1. In Southwell 1869 Hannah Mary Burton b. 1848 Riddings, Derbyshire (div.); 2. In Ronaldskirk, York 24 Sep 1878 Alice Mary Hugginson b. 1849 Romaldkirk, Yorks., d. 1916 Newcastle upon Tyne; ?3. Margaret Jane (had probate)
Children: 2. Henry Wood (30 Nov 1879 Darlington-1961)
Book Reference: CMS, Iliffe
General Information:
CMS 1875 - Age 32. MRCS Eng. 1864; LSA 1865. In medical practice, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 1875, May 27 to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Mombasa, as Medical Missionary. 1876 May 2 to England and resigned. Service 1 year. Married 1869, May 18 Anna Maria Burton
Iliffe - Forster came to Freretown on 7 July 1875 and opened a free dispensary in Mombasa Town. A frail man of 'morbidly nervous temperament', he anxiously sought assistants. Two young Bombay Africans 'failed thro' bad morals', leaving him at the end of 1875 with only James Assura, who must at this time have been about 15 or 16 and had apparently arrived from India somewhat earlier through a connection with freedmen working for the previous missionaries near Mombasa. By the time Forster returned to England in April 1876, Assura had become the mainstay of the medical work .
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