cover image: Church staff, Zomba, Malawi, ca.1926

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Church staff, Zomba, Malawi, ca.1926

"Zomba. Rev J. F. Alexander and his beadle." Portrait of Scottish clergyman and his church assistant, standing on a verandah. The Reverend James Frederick Alexander (1882-1941) was ordained in 1908 and sent out to Nyasaland that year. He served in Domasi, Zomba and Blantyre until his retirement in 1938. He was married to Janet (Nita) Simson Brown, 29 August 1917. He wrote ‘Kulemekeza kwa mulungu' [The Worship of God] a devotional manual in the Manganja dialect.
workers clergy mission churches alexander, james frederick, missionary, nyasaland, 1882-1941
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-80251
Date published
circa 1926
Dates
circa 1926
Pages
Photographic prints, 8.6 x 13.8 cm.
Place Discussed
Africa Malawi Southern region Zomba
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Malawi
Reference
impa-a-nls-75659141-1.tif
Rights
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License. manuscripts@nls.uk
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/4e9aa378040404442dc1d3e52b5a748b

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