William Broadbent Luddington

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William Broadbent Luddington (March 1843–November 1888) was a Primitive Methodist missionary who went to Fernando Po about 1880. His father was also a Primitive Methodist Minister.

He was born in Brampton, Lincolnshire in March 1843, and became a Primitive Methodist minister at Malton in Yorkshire in 1864. From 1873 until his death in 1888 Luddington divided his life between missionary work in Fernando Po [Bioko], particularly among the Bubi people, missionary deputation work and ministerial work in England. He and his wife returned from their third term in Fernando Po in a very poor state of health.

Luddington compiled the first Bubi primer in 1875 along with co-missionary William Barleycorn. Two copies of Bubi na English primer compiled by William B. Luddington & William N. Barleycorn, 1875 are available for consultation in SOAS Library.