| Description | Papers relating to the lives and missionary careers of Ralph Banks and his wife, Dora, including a copy of their autobiographical recollections, 'The Life and Times of Ralph and Dora Banks', correspondence, draft extracts from Ralph Banks' reminiscences and accounts of events in their lives as missionaries in East Africa, Ralph Banks' sermon and scriptural notes, printed maps of Tanganyika Territory [now part of Tanzania], a copy of Krapf's Swahili Dictionary and photographic negatives of East Africa mission locations. |
| Administrative History | Ralph Banks (1887-1960), CMS missionary in East Africa 1914-1953. Based in Kenya at Buxton High School, Mombasa, 1914-1919, and later Tanganyika [now part of Tanzania] at Muhalala 1921-1925, Kilimatinde 1926-1935, 1940-1947, and Berega 1936-1939. In 1920, he married Dora Wood Frankland (1897-1984). Ralph Banks retired in 1953.
Source: 'The Life and Times of Ralph and Dora Banks' and information supplied by the CMS Archivist. |
| Custodial History | Received by CMS February 2002. CMS retained the negatives when they transferred the rest of the collection to the University of Birmingham, Special Collections in May 2007. The negatives were ransferred to University of Birmingham, Special Collections: Cadbury Research Library by CMS, 30 April 2025. |