Wilfrid Barbrooke Grubb
| Wilfrid Barbrooke Grubb | |||||||
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| Born | 1865 | ||||||
| Died | 1930 | ||||||
| Residence | Springbank Lodge, Lasswade, Midlothian | ||||||
| Occupation | church | ||||||
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1920.02.17 proposed by E. Torday, seconded by A.C. Haddon
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missionary
Grubb, Wilfrid Barbrooke (1865–1930), missionary and explorer in Paraguay, was born at Ferryhill, Liberton, Edinburgh, on 11 August 1865, the third of five children of John Barbrooke Grubb (1823–1893), chemist, and his wife, Ann Mary Lang (1825–1916). He was of Scottish descent, though both parents were by birth English and by denomination Anglican. ... [dnb]
At the tender age of 19, Wilfrid Barbrooke Grubb had an interview with the South American Missionary Society (SAMS) to be considered for missionary work abroad. In 1889, after a stint in Tierra del Fuego, he was sent to northern Paraguay to establish the first mission station in Chaco. South America was still a largely unexplored continent that held many unknown dangers, and Chaco was a particularly notorious region. Previously uncontacted tribes are still being discovered there, and in the late 19th century stories of ritual mutilation and cannibalism were rife. .... Unsurprisingly, one of these natives soon shot him in the back with a poisoned arrow. He survived, despite the Lengua's custom of live burial and a 'roving goat' sitting on his chest while he attempted to convalesce. He went on to become a successful author and amateur anthropologist [from A pioneer, I presume: the life of W. Barbrooke Grubb by Hannah Phillips]
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External Publications
Grubb, W. Barbrooke (Wilfred Barbrooke), 1865-1930: Among the Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: a story of missionary work in South America. (London, C. Murray & Co., South American Missionary Society, 1904), also by South American Missionary Society, ed. by Gertrude Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Grubb, W. Barbrooke (Wilfred Barbrooke), 1865-1930: A church in the wilds : the remarkable story of the establishment of the South American mission amongst the hitherto savage and intractable natives of the Paraguayan Chaco / (London : Seeley, Service & Co., 1914), also by H. T. Morrey Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
Grubb, W. Barbrooke (Wilfred Barbrooke), 1865-1930: An unknown people in an unknown land : an account of the life and cistoms of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, with adventures and experiences during twenty years' pioneering and exploration amongst them, by W. Barbrooke Grubb ... edited by H.T. Morrey Jones. (London : Seeley, Service & co., limited, 1914), also by H. T. Morrey Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Grubb, W. Barbrooke (Wilfred Barbrooke), 1865-1930: An unknown people in an unknown land; an account of the life and customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, with adventures and experiences during twenty years' pioneering and exploration amongst them. (London, Seeley, Service, 1914), also by H. T. Morrey Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Grubb, W. Barbrooke (Wilfred Barbrooke), 1865-1930: An unknown people in an unknown land; an account of the life and customs of the Lengua Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco, with adventures and experiences met with during twenty years' pioneering and exploration amongst them, (London : Seeley & co., limited, 1911), also by Humphrey Tudor Morrey Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
