| Administrative History | Eric Francis Fox Bishop (1891-1976) was a CMS missionary between 1919 and 1956 firstly in Old Cairo mission (1919-1922) and then in Palestine until his retirement in 1956. Here he worked at the Palestine English College and in 1926 a delegation from the General Secretary's office in London recommended the establishment, in Jerusalem, of the Newman School of Missions, a school of languages and Islamic studies for missionaries and Eric Bishop became the first Director. In 1949 he was seconded to Glasgow University as Professor of Arabic. |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS in 1977 and transferred to the Special Collections Department in 2005 |