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Name: FITCH, Edmund Alexander (Rev.)
Nee: bro of Caroline Emma Fitch
Birth Date: 25 Jan 1860 Cromer
Death Date: 3 Sep 1894 Weston Rectory, Weston, Suffolk, on leave
Nationality: British
First Date: 1885
Last Date: 1894
Profession: CMS missionary
Area: Rabai
Married: In Rabai 6.12.1892 Alice May Clowes b. 15 May 1864 Neveria, Ceylon, d. 5 May 1957 Westerley Weston, Suffolk
Book Reference: Tucker, North, CMS, Rabai
School: Christ's Hospital, Pembroke College Cambridge
General Information:
North - From Cromer, Norfolk; accepted as missionary in EA 7-10-1884
CMS 1884 - Age 24. Of Cromer Vicarage, Norfolk. Christ's Hospital and Lynn Gram. Sch. Pembroke College Camb. BA (3rd Cl. Theolog. Tripos) 1882; MA 1889. 1883, May 20 Deacon; 1884, Trinity Priest by Bishop of Norwich. 1883-4 Curate of St. Margaret's Lowestoft. 1884, Oct 7 accepted by CMS. 1884, Nov 5 to Eeastern Equatorial Africa Mission via Palestine with Bp. Hannington, as Chaplain. 1884 unassigned; 1885-87, Chagga; 1887-88, Frere Town; 1889, Aug 28 to England; 1890, May 12 to E. Eq. Africa - Rabai. Exam. Chapl. to Bp. Tucker. 1894, July 8 to England on furlough; Sept 3, died at Weston Vicarage. Brother of Caroline E. Fitch, also a CMS Missionary to EA. Married 1892, Dec 12 (at Rabai - Suahili Service - crowded Native congregation; civil marriage Dec 6), Alice Mary Clowes, also a CMS Missionary
Tucker - in charge of CMS Mission at Rabai in 1893.
North arr. Freretown 24/1/1885; established Moshi Mission, Chagga 1885-87; Freretown 1887-1888; Rabai
Cambridge Univ. Alumni at ST JOHN'S, July 10, 1878. S. of Frederick (1837), V. of Cromer. B. there Jan. 25, 1860. School, King's Lynn (J. B. Slight, M.A.). Migrated to Pembroke, Oct. 8, 1878. Matric. Michs. 1878; B.A. 1882; M.A. 1890. Ord. deacon (Norwich) 1883; priest, 1884; C. of St Margaret's, Lowestoft, 1883-4. Chaplain to Bishop Hannington of East Equatorial Africa, 1884-5. Missionary (C.M.S.) at Mochi, East Africa, 1885-9; at Frere Town, 1889; at Rabai, Mombasa, 1894. Died of African fever, Sept. 3, 1894, at Weston rectory, Suffolk. Brother of Henry C. (1882). (Crockford; Scott, MSS.; Cambridge Chronicle, Sept. 7, 1894.)