A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Watson Fox, B.A. of Wadham College, Oxford : Missionary to the Telugu People, South India (Cambridge Library Collection - Religion)

Fox, George Townshend

Cambridge University Press（2010/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108008372
• DDC分類 266.02341054

Full Description

George Fox (1810-1886) compiled this memoir of his younger brother to inspire Rugby schoolboys to emulate this devout alumnus and become missionaries themselves. It was first published in 1850; the 1880 edition reissued here was the sixth printing and included a new preface and appendix recounting the successful establishment of the Rugby Fox Mastership at Masulipatam, India, where Fox had preached among the Telugu people of the British Madras Presidency. Containing an impressive quantity of personal letters and excerpts from his journal, the book provides insights into Fox's spiritual development and religious trials in the first half of the nineteenth-century. It includes unsympathetic accounts of the Telugu and India in general, but also recounts Fox's missionary strategies and goals, often reporting specific conversations or incidents. This content provides useful source material for scholars studying the British mission to India, the British empire, or nineteenth-century personal devotion.

Contents

Preface; 1. Birth; 2. Removal to Oxford; 3. Takes his degree; 4. Entrance upon his missionary duties; 5. Failure of health; 6. Death of his wife and youngest child; 7. Efforts while in England; 8. Missionary journals, correspondence, etc.; 9. Loss of health; 10. His illness and death; Appendix.