Classic DACB Collection

All articles created or submitted in the first twenty years of the project, from 1995 to 2015.

Quaker, William

1800s
Anglican Communion (Church Missionary Society)
Sierra Leone

Of Sierra Leone, West Africa. A Colony-born Christian, of Macco and Yoruba Tribes. At Grammar School and Fourah Bay College. A Catechist at Russell, Kent, and Hastings, Sierra Leone. 1859, May 15, deacon and 1863, March 15, ordained a priest by Bishop of Sierra Leone; and stationed at Hastings and York. 1867, transferred to the Native Pastorate, and stationed at York. 1878, to Kent. 1892, January 27, died at Sierra Leone. Brother of James Quaker.


Source:

Church Missionary Society, Register of Missionaries (Clerical, Lay and Female) and Native Clergy from 1804 to 1904.