Edwin William Smith
| Revd. Edwin William Smith DD | |||||||
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| Born | 1876 | ||||||
| Died | 1957 | ||||||
| Residence |
Baila-Batonga Mission, Kasenga, N.W. Rhodesia (via Kalomo) Martham, Great Yarmouth [1917] 25 Palazzo Assicuzioni, Piazza Venezia, Rome [1919] 2 Maison Dieu Road, Dover [1921] Enstone, Burwood Park Road, Walton-on-Thames [1923] Kasenga, Stanley Avenue, Chesham, Bucks [1931] The Old Watch House, Marina, Deal, Kent [1949] | ||||||
| Occupation |
church anthropologist | ||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
RAI Council 1927 Member
RAI Council 1928 Member
RAI Council 1929 Member
RAI Council 1932-33 Member
RAI Council 1933-34 President
RAI Council 1934-35 President
House Notes
1909.02.23 nominated by M. Longworth Dames, seconded by A.L. Lewis
1931 Rivers Memorial Medal
1952 nominated for Henry Myers Lecture
1957.12 deceased
1958.01.02 death noted
Notes From Elsewhere
The Reverend Edwin William Smith (1876–1957) was a Primitive Methodist missionary/anthropologist and author who was born in South Africa, studied at Elmfield College from 1888, and then worked in Africa..
He was born at Aliwal North, South Africa, on 7 September 1876. His parents were missionaries of the Primitive Methodist Connexion. His father, John Smith (1840–1915), went to Aliwal North in 1874 and spent ten of the next fourteen years there. Returning to London, he became secretary of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in the 1890s and president of the Primitive Methodist Conference in 1898.
In 1899 he married Julia, daughter of James Fitch of Peasenhall, Suffolk. He served in Africa as a missionary of the Primitive Methodist Church, 1898-1915.
Publications
External Publications
1907 Handbook of the Ila Language. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
1915 Ila New Testament (trans.). London: British and Foreign Bible Society.
1920 (with Andrew Murray Dale). The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. London: Macmillan.
1923 The Religion of Lower Races. New York: Macmillan.
1926 The Christian Mission in Africa. London: International Missionary Council.
1926 The Golden Stool. London: Holborn Publishing House.
1929 Aggrey of Africa. London: Student Christian Movement.
1929 The Secret of the African. London: Student Christian Movement.
1929 The Shrine of a People's Soul. London: Church Missionary Society.
1936 African Beliefs and Christian Faith. London: Lutterworth Press.
The Mabilles of Basutoland. Hodder and Stoughton, 1939
The secret of the African. United Society for Christian, 1943 (Seven lectures delivered as "Long lectures" in 1927-28, at the invitation of the Church Missionary Society.)
African beliefs and Christian faith. United Society for Christian, 1943
Knowing the African. United Society for Christian, 1946
The life and times of Daniel Lindley 1801-80. The Epworth Press 1949
The Blessed Missionaries: Being the Phelps-Stokes Lectures delivered in Cape Town in 1949; with foreword by Sir Herbert Stanl. Kapstadt: Oxford U.P, 1950
African Ideas of God. London: Edinburgh House Press.
Great Lion of Bechuanaland: the Life and Times of Roger Price, Missionary and Statesman, London 1957
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
SOAS, Bible Society archives, Cambridge, Hartford seminary archives Connecticut
