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Name: HUBBARD, Edward Henry (Rev.)

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Birth Date: 1866 Clifton, Bristol, bapt 11 Nov

Death Date: 9.3.1898 Mengo, of wounds from shooting accident, buried there

Nationality: British

First Date: 1891

Last Date: 1898

Profession: CMS missionary in Uganda

Area: Uganda, Nassa

Book Reference: Purvis, Tucker, North, Curtis, BEA, CMS

General Information:

Tucker - he was a man of considerable ability and force of character, and his loss was a great blow to the work at Nasa
North - Arr. Uganda Sept 1891; Nassa Mission on Speke Gulf from 1891-2; visiting Mwanza from Nassa 27/4/1893; Ordained Priest 28/5/1893, Mengo; dep. with wife on leave 31/7/1896; arr. Mombasa from leave 3/9/1897; performed wedding of John Ainsworth at Machakos 3/11/1897 on way to Uganda; seriously wounded in shooting accident near Eldama Ravine 10/12/1897, taken on to Mengo; d. 9/3/1898 of wounds, Mengo; 'an exceptionally nice fellow' (Ainsworth, RH); Hubbard conducted the marriage of John Ainsworth to Ina Scott at Machakos 3-11-1897.
Curtis - p. 79 - Entry in Eldama Ravine 'Diary of Camps' - 11th December 1898 - Mr Martin went out to bring in Mr Hubbard who had been accidentally shot'.
CMS 1891 - Age 25. b. at Clifton. 1888, May Prep. Instn.; 1889, May CM Coll. 1891, May 17 to E. Eq. Africa Mission - Nassa. 1893, Apr 9 at Mengo, Deacon and May 28 Priest by Bishop Tucker.
Tucker - candidate for Priest's Orders in 1893. Left for furlough 1896. Leading party of missionaries to Uganda in 1897 - accidentally shot by one of his companions near Eldama Ravine - died in Mengo

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