William Charles ('Charlie') Willoughby
| Revd. William Charles ('Charlie') Willoughby | |||||||||
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| Born | 1857 | ||||||||
| Died | 1938 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Tiger Kloof Institution, Vryburg, Cape Colony [1905] Molepole, via Gaberones Station, Bechuanaland Protectorate [1915] Kennedy School of Missions, 889 Asylum Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut, USA [1919] The Kennedy School of Missions, 55 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, Conn. [1927] 25 Shaftmoor Lane, Acocks Green, Birmingham [1931] | ||||||||
| Occupation | church | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
1919.10.14 A letter was read from the Revd. W.C. Willoughby, stating that he had left Africa & removed to Hartford, Connecticut, and asking if he might retain his position as Local Correspondent. It was resolved to grant this request subject to Mr Willoughby providing material for publication
1920.10.26 proposed by E.N. Fallaize, seconded by R.W. Williamson
Notes From Elsewhere
John Rutherford, Univ. of Birmingham, 1983: This study of W.C.Willoughby of Bechuanaland, which is approximately 135,000 words in length, is a critical appraisal of his work as a missionary practitioner and scholar. It begins in 1882 with an account of the year he spent as a "pioneer missionary" in Central Africa and includes a "flash-back" to his earlier life. This venture, in which he nearly lost his life, was a failure and he returned home to pastoral work in Scotland and England. Ten years later he was appointed by the London Missionary Society to Phalapye, seat of the Bamangwato t in Bechuanaland. Two chapters are devoted to his life and work there, his reactions to the British invasion of Matabeleland and Mashonaland, and his visit to London with the Bechuanaland Chiefs in 1895. Pastoral, educational and political work during these years are inextricably mixed. Willoughby spent a further decade founding and building up the life of the Tiger Kloof Native Institution at Vryburg in South Africa's Northern Cape. The first of two chapters deals with his struggles to set up the school and is followed by an attempt to evaluate his educational ideas and achievements. At the point of breakdown Willoughby handed over to a newly appointed successor and, for a short while, became missionary at Molepolole where the tribal problems of the Eakwena had reached an unpleasant crisis. He was glad when the Society invited him to undertake an extended deputation to Australasia and the Islands of the South Pacific. During this tour Willoughby was invited to become Professor of African Missions at the Kennedy School of Missions at Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States. It was there that, at last, he was able, along with his teaching, to give himself to the task of writing up his researches into the history, social life, politics, anthropology and religion of the Bantu people. Following a chapter covering his twelve years in America, four chapters examine his three major publications. Two are an analysis of his ideas expressed in Race Problems in the New Africa, and two, dealing with Bantu religious beliefs and practices, concentrate on The Soul of the Bantu and Nature Worship and Taboo. Chapter twelve concludes the study with a brief account of Willoughby's return to Birmingham, where he had been trained fifty years earlier, his death, and an overall assessment of his life's work. An attempt is made to delineate several areas of African life which Willoughby was interested in and which, in terms of Christian practice, might be further developed today. They relate to rain-making, liturgical experiments and co-operation between those engaged in European and traditional methods of healing.
Publications
External Publications
'Mirambo, King of the Wanyamwesi' published in the Chonicles of the
LMS 1884.
1921 Fifth General Missionary Conference of South Africa - evidence for
the Commission on the Uniformity of Discipline in Native Churches in
South Africa
articles for 'The African Monthly', 'The Chronicle of the London
Missionary Society' 'The Geographical Journal', 'The London Quarterly
Review', 'The International Review of Missions', and 'The Christian
Express'
Special Collections file DA49/12]
articles from'The Times Literary Supplement and others [file DA49/2]
Lecture notes 'Caravan & Camp Life in Central Africa'
Books [some published by William]:
1877 'Description of Unyamwezi, the territory of King Mirambo, & the
best route thither from the east coast' Broyon - Mirambo, P
Proceedings of the R.G.S. 22 (1877-78), 28-36 ###
1895 '20 years in Khama's country' Rev . James Harman LMS Hodder &
Stoughton
1900 'Native life on the Transvaal Border'
1912 'Tiger Kloof'
1928 'The Soul of the Bantu: a Sympathetic Study of the Magico-
Religious Practices & Beliefs * first of proposed trilogy [*marked *] and
this book published by Doubleday Doran & Co.
1923 'Race Problems in the New Africa' published by Clarendon Press
Oxford ['required reading' for a British Commission sent that year to
South Africa.
1932 'Nature Workshop and Taboo' * published by Hartford Seminary
Press
'High Gods & Supreme Beings' incomplete due to ill health
Several sketch books by Wiliam, some at the SOAS.
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
Brighton Museum: ethnographical specimens
Council of World Mission [LMS] at SOAS London hold some papers and
correspondence, plus some personal material, photos and press cuttings,
and much material about Tiger Kloof
There are Willoughby papers at Orchard Learning Resources Centre,
Selly Oak, Uni. of Birmingham [Special Collection] which were deposited
by Edgar Willoughby in 1940,