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Name: PRUEN, Septimus Tristram (Dr.)

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Birth Date: 20 May 1859 Cotham, Glos.

Death Date: 5 Feb 1936 Cheltenham

First Date: 1885

Profession: Church Missionary Society missionaries who took over from Stuart & Rachel Watt at 'Mamboia' Mission in 1885/6. Tucker - laboured at Kikombo with much devotion. Ashe - 1888 '...with his brave wife and a six-weeks-old baby, little Stella

Area: Mamboia, Kikombo

Married: 1. 22.9.1887 Constance Helen Hutchinson b. 29 June 1858 Saharunpore, India, d. 4 June 1915 Cheltenham; 2. In Petham, Kent 24 Apr 1924 Evelyn Mary Arbuthnot b. 1881 Portsea Island, d. 25 Mar 1939 Canterbury

Children: Stella Helen (17 Aug 1888 Mpwapwa-29 Sep 1972 Aldershot); Ruby Evelyn (Sheldon) (25 Oct 1889 Bedford-1973 Aldershot); Enid Constance (Buckingham) (13 Jan 1891 Cheltenham-30 Jan 1969 Worthing); Eric Tristram (10 June 1894 Cheltenham-5 Mar 1972 Newton Abbot)

Author: 'The Arab and the African'

Book Reference: Watt, Tucker, Ashe, CMS, North

General Information:

CMS 1886 - Age 27. b. at Clifton. 1881-82 Durham Univ. Coll. of Medicine; 1878-83 St. Bartholomews Hosp.; 1883-85 House Surg. at Cheltenham Hosp. 1883 MRCS; MB 1885, MD. 1885, Feb 3 accepted a Medical Missionary  to E. Eq. Africa Mission. 1886, Jan CM Coll. 1886 May 20,  to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Mpwapwa; 1889, Aug 28 to England. Resigned on account of Mrs P's ill-health. m. 1887, Sept 22 C.E. Hutchinson.

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