Administrative History | Arthur Le Feuvre of Ceylon, a planter, was accepted as a CMS missionary and was sent, as a lay evangelist, to North India in 1889. He was a member of first Band of Associated Evangelists with two other CMS missionaries, S. W. Donne and P. H. Shaul. He returned to England on furlough and was ordained as deacon on 1895 He subsequently became a railway and planter's chaplain in Bengal and Ceylon from 1908 until 1922. Reference: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905) and finding aid to the collection. |
Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS in 1946; transferred on permanent loan to the Special Collections Department by the CMS in the 1980s |