| Description | A large collection of papers and other materials relating to the missionary work of members of the Hooper family, principally Handley Hooper, Cicely Hooper and Cyril Hooper which includes; family letters, diaries, sermons, notes for talks, memoirs and reminiscences, reports, photographs, printed papers, a film about Kahuhia, glass slides, watercolours; study materials and a missionary lotto game.
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| Administrative History | Cyril James Douglas Hooper (1916-1999) CMS missionary (Kenya) 1939-57, CMS Youth Adviser 1957-64, CMS Overseas Service Adviser 1964-71; Kenya (Kirogo Secondary School Murunga 1972-75 married 21 February 1942 Ursula Gimingham
Reference: Information supplied by CMS Archivist
Handley Douglas Hooper (1891-1966) was born in East Africa, the son of a serving CMS missionary. After education in England he was ordained and in 1915 accepted by CMS as a missionary in Kahuhia, British East Africa. Between 1917 and 1918, he served with the African Carrier Corps. In 1926 he returned to England and was appointed Secretary to CMS Africa Committee, a post he held until his retirement in 1949. In his official capacity he undertook visits to East and Central Africa and Sudan missions. In 1956 he was appointed Canon Emeritus of the Diocese of Mombasa. He was married in 1915 to Margaret Cicely Winterbotham.
Reference: CMS Register of missionaries Men 1915-1918 (manuscript, unpublished)
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of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905), and unpublished additions to this register in the CMS archives |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS January 2001 |