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Name: ROWLING, Frank (Rev.)

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Birth Date: 20 Apr 1866 Leeds, bapt 16 May 1868

Death Date: 9.3.1949 Leeds

Nationality: British

First Date: 1893

Last Date: 1921

Profession: CMS Missionary - leaving for Uganda Aug. 1893, in Mengo in 1894. Received Priest's Orders Ngogwe Dec 1895

Area: Mityana, Uganda

Married: 1. At Mengo 7.2.1898 Eleanor Elizabeth Browne b. 24 Mar 1867, d. 1 June 1940 Bournemouth) 2. ?

Children: son (1.6.1904 Mityana); 3 dau

Book Reference: Tucker, EAHB 1905, North, Drumkey, BEA, UJ, EASC, CMS, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Gazette

General Information:

Tucker - 1898 - at Machakos met Mr & Mrs Rowley on their way to the coast
Gazette 15 Jul 1906 F.W. Rowley - gun licences
North - CMS Uganda - Engineer; arr. Mengo 18/12/1893; based at Kigwisa in Busoga at 1895; on leave 1898; Mityana
Uganda Journal - Vol 33, p. 213 - The Rev. F. Rowling was an outstanding missionary and linguist of his day. Eleanor Browne was a member of the first party of women missionaries to reach Uganda in 1895. Both had been in Uganda during the first months of the mutiny, but the crisis had passed when they were married on February 1898. They left almost at once for England before the official despatch noting those who had rendered service during the mutiny had been prepared. This may account for the omission of their names from the list of those 32 missionaries recorded as having been awarded the medal [Uganda Mutiny Medal], in Uganda Journal Vol. 10 (1946) p. 147. This omission was seemingly realised at some later date and, though Mrs Rowling was still Miss Browne when her service was rendered, the medal was issued in her married name. They retired from Uganda in 1921. She died in 1940. He married again but himself died 9 March 1949. The second Mrs Rowling who had not shared her husband's life in Uganda may not have appreciated the significance of these medals.
EASC Vol 10 p 485 - Early Ugandan Postal History - ……The next development, in 1896, was the production of typeset stamps by The Rev. Frank Rowling using the CMS 'Albion' hand-operated printing press. He had sufficient type only for 16 stamps, including the well-known small "o" variety …….. {much more}
CMS 1893 - Age 27. Of Leeds. Engineer. 1891, Feb. Prep. Instn. 1892, May CM Coll. 1893, 1st Cl. Oxford and Camb. Prelim. Theolog. Exam. Trinity, Deacon by Bishop of London (Gospeller). June 24 (from Amsterdam) to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Uganda.
Tucker - at Busoga in Aug 1895.
EAHB 1905 - CMS Mityana
1939 England and Wales Register living in Bournemouth with wife

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