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Name: BUTCHER, Hubert John Edwin (Rev.)
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1880 Camberwell
Death Date: 15 Aug 1956 Droitwich
First Date: 1912
Last Date: 1956
Profession: CMS missionary
Area: Muitira Fort Hall, 1930 CMS School, Limuru
Married: 1919 Elizabeth Howard, CMS missionary who arrived Kenya 1916, b. 1891
Children: Hubert Maxwell (22 May 1924 Kenya-6 Nov 2007 Prince George, BC, Canada); Margaret Elizabeth Luce (Lapage) (1923)
Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, Foster, Rabai
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 23/8/56 - Canon H.J.E. Butcher, whose death in Droitwich at the age of 77 is reported, was from 1936 to 1943 the first secretary of the African Church Council in Kenya. Ordained in 1912, he joined the CMS and served in Africa until 1953. He was first posted to Freretown and later was principal of the Divinity School in Mombasa, which during his term of office was transferred to Limuru. In collaboration with Canon Hellier, of the UMCA, he later worked on translations. Due to retire in 1949, whehn he had already had longer service in the East African field than any other member of the CMS his term was extended for a further three years. Then he accepted the living of Hadzor, Droitwich, which he held to the day of his death. In 1919 he married Miss Elizabeth Howard, a CMS missionary who survives him. The Rev H. Butcher, their son, is a missionary in India, and their daughter is married to a CMS missionary.
Foster - completed Swahili translation of the Bible. Died 1956
Gazette - 6/2/1924 - Voters Register - Ukamba - H J Butcher, Missionary, Fort Hall