Classic DACB Collection

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

Bowen, John Bernard

1800s
Anglican Communion (Church Missionary Society)
Sierra Leone

Of West Africa. A Heathen, of the Mende Tribe. At Grammar School, Freetown and Fourah Bay College. 1867, to England and entered Church Missionary College, Islington. 1875, May 23 ordained a deacon and 1877, December 23, ordained a priest by Bishop of Sierra Leone. Engaged in translational work with Rev. H. Johnson; afterwards tutor at Fourah Bay College. Pastor of Hastings and Grafton.


Source:

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