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Name: GORDON, Edward Cyril (Rev.)
Birth Date: 23.10.1858 Fritwell, Oxford
Death Date: 29.1.1926 Bristol
Nationality: British
First Date: 1882
Last Date: 1902
Profession: CMS missionary in Uganda
Area: Uganda
Married: In Reading 12.8.1898 Ellen 'Nelly' Bazett b. 11 Sep 1860 Reading, d. 15 Oct 1953 Chobham (sister of Mary Mrs Harry Leakey and Sibella and Louisa Bazett)
Book Reference: Permanent Way, Purvis, Tucker, North, BEA, UJ, CMS
School: Lincoln Grammar School; Marlborough Coll.
General Information:
North - arr. Zanzibar 19/6/1882; Msalala, Rubaga, Usambiro 1882-89; Uganda 1889, Mengo Dec 1890; Ordained priest 1891; arr. Mengo from leave 18/12/1893 and Dec 1898; at Busaka, Sese Islands May 1899; dep. for England 12/2/1902, CMS connection closed.
Uganda Journal - Vol 23, p.146 - Captain Smith's Expedition to Lake Victoria - 1882-1905 CMS Missionary in East Africa and Uganda.
CMS 1882 - Age 24. Of Atwick Vicarage, Hull. Lincoln Grammar School and Marlborough College. Prep. Instn. and 1880 CM Coll. 2nd Cl. Oxf. and Camb. Prelim. Theolog. Exam. 1882, May 1 Deacon by Bishop Perry for Bishop of London; 1891 Priest by Bishop Tucker. 1882, May 17 to E. Eq. Africa Mission; 1882-87 Msalala; 1887-88 Rubaga; 1888-89 Usambiro; 1889 Uganda; 1891, Sept 17, reached England on furlough. 1893, July 5 to E. Eq. Africa - Uganda - Mission. Nephew of Bishop Hannington. [Notes by Roy Dunstan] 1895-7 Sese Isles; 1897 Aug 18 to UK; 1898 Sept 29 to Uganda - Busoga; 1902 Mar 12 to UK; 1905 Jan 3 placed on disabled fund; 1926 Jan 29, died at Clifton, Bristol. Uncle of Winifred A. Westlake, also a CMS Missionary. Married 1898, Aug 12 Ellen Bazett (b. 1860), sister of Mrs Leakey and of Louisa, Mary and Sibella Bazett. Mrs Gordon died at Chobham 1953, Oct 15 aged 93.
Tucker - Cyril Gordon entered Uganda in July 1887. Organising the evangelisation of the islands of the Lake in 1896. Arrived Uganda with his wife from England Dec. 1898