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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAH000014/00001
Notes
- General Note:
- Two photos pasted back to back
- General Note:
- Inscribed on the back: W. Pool, builder and architecht and J. Richardson
- General Note:
- W. Pool, who flourished between 1877 and 1888, was an architect, sometimes described as a builder, assigned to the London Missionary Society in Madagascar
- General Note:
- The Rev James Richardson, after a short illness passed away on Tuesday 1st August 1922. Mr Richardson was one of those appointed to Madagascar after the burning of the national idols in 1867, and the consequent great increase of the native congregations . Besides his ministerial training at Cheshunt College, Mr Richardson had also received educational training; and after spending two years in Betsileo country in founding and directing the newly established mission in that province, he removed to Antananarivo in 1872 to take charge of the Normal School in the capital. Here he did a great work for many years in general education as well in the training of native school teachers. A great number of his lads were taught by him the solfa system of music, and in almost all parts of Madagascar there are men who wre instructed by him in that system and able to teach it to others. Mr Richardson was a gifted Malagasy scholar, and all students of the language are under deep obligation to him for the excellent Malagasy-English Dictionary which he edited (1885) and for his Malagasy for Beginners (1883) while the several valuable school books which he wrote have been for many years standard educational textbooks. He was constantly preaching in town or country, his services being greatly appreciated by the Malagasy. Many of the best hymns in the native language were written by Mr Richardson and he edited both hymn and tune books for the native churches. In the year 1877 he undertook a long exploratory evangelistic journey into the south west of the of Madagascar, collecting much valuable information about the then unknown tribes of that region; but on his return journey he was attacked by a band of brigands, who robbed him of all but the clothes he was wearing at the time, so that he escaped with difficulty, and endured many privations before reaching home. Soon after the French occupation Mr Richardson resigned his connection with the Madagascar Mission. In May 1899, he was appointed principal of the Central Training School for Bechuanaland, which the directors contemplated forming but the Boer War and othe circumstances delayed the establishment of the school. In 1903 Mr Richardson resigned his position as a missionary of the L.M.S. on acount of the condition of his eyesight, and settled in pastoral work in East London, South Africa. In 1906 he and his wife retired from active service. He and Mrs Richardson had the happiness of seeing two of their children devote themselves to missionary service , their son John having been a missionary for three years in Madagascar and later in Matebeleland, and their daughter Agnes going out to China in 1920. (http://tracingthefamily.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/revd-james-richardson.html)
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
- Resource Identifier:
- PP MS 63, Hardyman, Box 73, File 15 ( SOAS order with )
PP MS 63/04/15 ( SOAS manuscript number )
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