Anderson Collection

IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1835 AND
Held at: Henry Martyn Centre
Domain: printed
Title: Anderson Collection
Date(s) of contents: 1898-1987
Level of description: Collection
Extent and medium: 1 box of booklets, pamphlets, and a few personal papers.

CONTEXT

Name of creator(s): Anderson, Norman (1908-1994)

Administrative/Biographical history: Sir Norman Anderson was born on 29 September 1908 at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. He graduated with a double first in law from Cambridge University and becoming a member of CICCU (Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union). After leaving Cambridge, he spent time with the Nile Mission Press in Cairo before serving with the Egypt General Mission where he necame fluent in Arabic and began his lie-long study of Islam and Islamic law. He was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in the Second World War, eventually becoming Political Secretary for Arab Affairs in the Foreign Office in London advising on post-war developments in Arabia. In 1946 he returned to Cambridge as warden of Tyndale House. After three years he moved to the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, as lecturer in Islamic Law, becoming the first Professor of Oriental Laws in 1954. For the next thirty years he published over sixty articles and books concerning the Islamic law code, During this time he also served as part-time Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. In 1970 he was elected the first Chairman of the House of Laity of the General Synod of the Church of England. He was awarded an OBE in 1945, was appointed a QC in 1974 and was knighted in 1975. He died on December 1994.

Custodial history:

Immediate source of acquisition: The collection was donated to the Henry Martyn Centre by John Trapnell in 1995.

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

Scope and content/abstract: Collection consists chiefly of booklets and pamphlets relating to the Egypt General Mission, 1898-1944, Christianity and mission and Islam. Writers include Anderson himself, Samuel Zwemer, Reverend John Stott and the Right Reverend Lesslie Newbigin. There are also a few personal letters.

System of arrangement: The material is contained in one box, divided into four sections: personal letters, pamphlets etc. on the Egyptian General Mission, Christianity, mission and Islam.

ACCESS AND USE

Language: English.

Conditions governing access: Contact repository for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids: A handlist is available.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Copies: Can be provided

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note: Compiled using:
Biographical dictionary of Christian missions, ed. by Gerald H. Anderson (New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1998).

Date(s) of descriptions: April 2002

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects

Christianity and other religions

Christians

Islam

Missionary societies

Missionary work

Religious activities

Religious organizations

Personal names

Anderson | James Norman Dalrymple | b 1908 | Knight | Professor of Oriental Laws

Anderson | Pat | née Givan | Lady

Billington | Roy | Dr | Church Missionary Society medical missionary in Uganda

Church | Joe | 1899-1989 | Church Missionary Society missionary in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya and leader of the East African Revival

Church | John E x Church | Joe

Coggan | Donald | 1909-2000 | Archbishop of Canterbury 1974-1980

Jones | Lewis Bevan | 1880-1960 | Baptist missionary to Indian Muslims and Principal of the Henry Martyn School of Islamic Studies, India

Kivengere | Festo | c 1919-1988 | Anglican Bishop of the Church of the Province of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Boga-Zaire

Newbigin | James Edward Lesslie | 1909-1998 | Bishop of Madras and Ramnad

Stott | John W. R. | 1921- | rector of All Souls, Langham Place and founder of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity

Zwemer | Samuel Marinus | 1867-1952 | Doctor | founder of the Arabian Mission of the Reformed Church of America

Corporate names

Cambridge Missionary Fellowship

China Inland Mission

Egypt General Mission

Places

China

Egypt

India

Malaya

Nepal

Uganda