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Name: LAMB, James Abner (Rev.)

Birth Date: 30 July 1832 Kettering

Death Date: 1 July 1883 Lagos

First Date: 1876

Last Date: 1878

Profession: CMS Missionary - succeeded Rev W.S. Price at Mombasa

Area: Mombasa, Frere Town

Married: In Bath 1866 Marianne Hollis b. 1827 Madras, buried 15 May 1914 Croydon

Book Reference: Tucker, CMS

General Information:

CMS 1861 - Age 29. Of Kettering, Northants. Cheltenham College. Solicitor. 1860 at CM College. 1861, Sept 22 Deacon by Bishop of Madras (in England); 1861, Dec 22 Priest by Bishop of Sierra Leone. 1861, Nov 20 to Lagos as Secretary of Mission; …… 1870, Sept 24 transferred to Sierra Leone as Secretary of the Mission. 1873, Sept 12, to England and resigned. Incumbent of Hoyland near Barnsley. Abs. 2 years 3 months. Service 11 years 9 months. 1876, Jan 25 and March 30, invited to return to the Mission field as Corresponding Secretary of East Africa Mission, and left England March 30; 1878, March 28 to England; 1879, April 5 again to Sierra Leone as Secretary …. 1883, July 1 died at Lagos. Service 7 years 3 months. Total service 19 years. Served in both West and East Africa Missions; and both at Lagos and at Sierra Leone rendered valuable service as Secretary; also at Frere Town, where he succeeded its founder, Rev. W.S. Price. Married 1866, Marianne Hollis who survived him.

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