Foster - A CMS Missionary from Australia. He arrived in Kenya on 28 February 1937. In 1939 he married Miss Marjory Dixon Harrison from Melbourne, Australia, a teacher in the State of Victoria. In 1945 he was appointed the General Secretary of the African Council of the Diocese of Mombasa. In 1950 he was appointed the Diocesan Bishop of Central Tanganyika and on 1 February 1951 he left Kenya.

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Coast Voters list clergyman, Kaloleni

Dict of African Christian Biog Alfred Stanway was an Australian bishop and missionary leader. As a young man he experienced a call to Africa, which led him to offer to serve with the Anglican Church Missionary Society. He trained for ordination at Ridley College, Melbourne, and began work in Kenya in 1937. In 1951 he was consecrated bishop of Central Tanganyika, at that time a diocese that covered only half the country. Under his dynamic leadership the church continued to grow rapidly. He put strong emphasis on giving responsibility to local Christians. African bishops were consecrated and new dioceses created. He adavanced substantially medical and educational work and began to develop a network of Bible schools. His lifelong stress on the value of Christian literature led to the establishment of book shops and the Central Tanganyika Press. When he left Tanzania in 1971 there was an African archbishop, and Stanway himself was succeeded by an African. He was then deputy principal of Ridley College until invited unexpectedly to become president/dean of a new seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to be called Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry. From 1975 to 1978 he worked there to build up its spiritual, physical, and academic foundations. He wrote Prayer: A Personal Testimony (1991).

Stanway Institute for World Mission, Pennsylvania, and Trinity School for Ministry’s first Dean and President, the Rt. Rev. Alfred Stanway, served as a CMS missionary in Tanzania for most of his adult life. When he moved to Pittsburgh to begin Trinity School for Ministry, he brought his love of global mission with him. As Bp. Stanway worked to develop Trinity’s culture and ethos, he built his missionary zeal into the very roots of the school.

See his entry in Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography