Wareham, Harold Edgar and Rebecca Purves

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380617
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: Wareham, Harold Edgar and Rebecca Purves
Date(s)	: Created c1893-1960s
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Wareham | Harold Edgar | 1872-1955 | medical missionary Wareham | Rebecca Purves | 1877-1955 | née Stewart | missionary

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Harold Edgar Wareham was born on 8 January 1872 at Guildford, son of the Rev. Edward Allport Wareham who was a missionary to Southern India with the London Missionary Society. He studied theology at Edinburgh Congregational Hall, and medicine and surgery at Edinburgh University. He was ordained in April 1902, and was appointed to the London Missionary Society Central African Mission as a medical missionary. He married Rebecca Purves Stewart (b 1877) on 19 April 1902. Dr and Mrs Wareham left Britain on 30 April 1902 and arrived in Kawimbe on 3 August. They were stationed at Kambole until October 1903, when they were transferred to Kawimbe. In 1921, Dr Wareham was appointed temporarily to Mpolokoso. He left in May 1922 to open a new mission station at Kafulwe in Lake Mweru district. The Warehams carried out medical, educational and some evangelical activities. In 1925 they were transferred to Mbereshi. Their work as missionaries in Northern Rhodesia ended in 1931, when Dr Wareham retired on grounds of ill health. They returned to Britain on 21 September 1931. Harold Edgar Wareham died in Edinburgh on 4 February 1955. Mrs Wareham died on 15 March in the same year.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Photographs, c1893-1960s, of Central Africa by Harold Edgar Wareham and his wife Rebecca Purves Wareham (née Stewart). Subject matter includes missionaries and mission stations in Northern Rhodesia, locals, church activities and scenery.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Most of the photographs are contained in albums, which have been arranged in chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1982.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS).

Publication note:

Description Notes

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Date(s) of descriptions:
15 May 2000