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Name: BLACKLEDGE, George Robert OBE (Rev. Canon)
Birth Date: 1868 Chorley, Lancs., bapt. 23 Sep 1868
Death Date: 1935 Worthing
Nationality: British
First Date: 1894 - arrived in Uganda Feb 1895
Last Date: 1930
Profession: CMS missionary
Area: Uganda, EAHB 1905 Nakanyonyi - CMS
Married: 14.11.1901 Helen Dorothy Ida Scott b. 1874 York, d. 20 Oct 1965 Newcastle upon Tyne
Children: Joan Helen (Kampala 2.4.1903); Alexander Roden (Worthing 28.4.1906)
Book Reference: Gillett, Tucker, EAHB 1905, Red 25, North, Drumkey, Red 22, BEA, CMS, Medals, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Red 19
School: Private schools and at the Church Missionary College, London
General Information:
Like many others in those early pioneering days, he walked up from the coast to Lake Victoria and then crossed the lake to Uganda. Appointed Sub-Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, Kampala in 1922, Archdeacon in 1926.
During his 37 Missionary years in the Protectorate his adventures with man and beast were many and varied, but the whole of its inhabitants, in one way or another, owe him sincere gratitude and appreciation for the extraordinary good work he rendered to the country. In 1930, the year in which he retired from the CMS Service in the Protectorate, he was appointed Honorary Canon of the Uganda Church. Shortly after returning to England he accepted a benefice in Kent.
Tucker - CMS Missionary - autumn recruit for Uganda in 1894. Received Priests Orders Ngogwe Dec 1895.
Tucker - at Kyagwe in Aug 1895
Red 25 - Clerk in Holy Orders; sub-Dean and Rector of Mengo Cathedral; Canon Missioner of the Diocese of Uganda.
North - CMS Uganda, Mechanical Engineer from Chorley, Lancs., Ordained Deacon 1894; aged 25 dep. Southampton for EA 14-7-1894; arr. Mengo 6-3-1895, at Bukoba early 1897; Joined troops to act as interpreter during Sudanese mutiny Feb. 1898; moved from Bugerere to start mission amongst the Bukedi, early 1899
Drumkey 1909 - CMS Uganda - Kabarole CMS 1894 - Age 25. Of Chorley, Lancs. Chorley Gram. Sch. Mechanical Engineer. 1890, Nov. Prep Instn. 1891, Easter, CM Coll. 2nd Cl. Oxford & camb. Prelim. Theolog. Exam. 1894, Trinity, Deacon by Bishop of London; July 14 to E. Eq. Africa - Uganda - Mission, via the Cape.
Medals - East African Ecclesiastical Department - Corps of Military Staff Chaplains
Red Book 1919 - Canon G. R. Blackledge - CMS - Kampala