Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow
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Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow was an English Christian missionary to East Africa in the mid-twentieth century. He was born on 13th June 1911 and died on the 27th February 1978 in Cambridge, England.
[edit] Early life
He was the son of Canon Herbert Edgcumbe Hadow and Edith Rose Abell. He grew up at Quedgely Vicarage, Gloucestershire.
He attended Haileybury College, leaving in about 1930. From there he went to Oriel College, Oxford University.
His uncle was musician Sir William Henry Hadow and his aunt author Grace Eleanor Hadow
[edit] Later life
He was ordained a vicar at Bristol cathedral in 1936. He was a missionary for the United Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in East Africa from 1939 to 1977. He served in Manda, Likoma and Milo, Tanzania. During this time in South Western Tanzania he was a regular visitor to Uwemba Mission, where the Catholic priests recalled him fondly 15 years after his death.
He was awarded an Order of the British Empire.
He was taken ill at Milo in 1997 and travelled back to Cambridge, where he died ten weeks later.
He was fluent in Kiswahili and also spoke Kipanga, the local tongue in Milo. He was interested in the different dialects of Kiswahili.
[edit] References
Gloucestershire Record Office: Hadow Family Papers
Letter from his sister Rachael (Ray) Hadow formerly of Girton, Cambridge
