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Name: CHANCELLOR, William Bartlett

Birth Date: 1849 Kent

Death Date: 4 Sep 1887 Ramsgate

First Date: 1873

Last Date: 1874

Profession: CMS missionary

Area: Mombasa

Married: In Darmstadt, Germany 19 July 1873 Catherine Hechler b. Chunar, N. India 1849, d. 10 Oct 1934 Lincoln

Book Reference: CMS

General Information:

CMS 1873 - Age 24. Of Margate, Kent. 1870 at CM College. 1873, June 8 Deacon by Bishop of London; 1873, Oct 5 Priest by Bishop of Bombay. 1873, Oct 16 to Mombasa, EA; 1874, Sept 7 to England; 1875, March 14 transferred to the Seychelles, Mauritius Mission; 1879, July 29 to England in broken health, and retired. After long illness, died at Ramsgate, Sept 4, 1887. Founded Industrial Home at Capuchin (Venn's Town) Seychelles, for rescued African slave children. ……. Married 1873, July 15 Catherine Hechler, daughter of Dietrich Hechler, a CMS Missionary.

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