| Administrative History | Douglas Arthur Lowndes Hooper (1862-1918) CMS Missionary East Africa Mission 1885-1917 was born in Clapham and educated at Harrow School and Cambridge University. He was accepted by the CMS as a missionary to East Africa in 1885 and was located to Uyui, Eastern Equatorial Africa. He was ordained by Bishop Tucker in 1890. In the same year he married, fellow CMS missionary Edith Baldey who died at Jilore only three years later. He married his second wife, medical missionary, Elizabeth Mary Wells, in 1895. Douglas Hooper died in January 1918 at Highbury.
References: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (ChurchMissionary Society, 1905), and unpublished additions to this register in the CMS archives |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS June 1992 |