Fidler, William
IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0103 MS 380725
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies Library
Domain: archival
Title: Fidler, William
Date(s) of contents: 1825-1827
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent and medium: 1 volume
CONTEXT
Name of creator(s): Fidler | William | 1795-1866 | missionary
Administrative/Biographical history: Born, 1795; married Anna Wale (d 1859); appointed by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society to St Vincent, West Indies, 1824; stationed in the West Indies, 1825-1838; minister at Retford, 1838-1840; minister at Belper, 1840-1842; returned to missionary work, serving in Demerara and the West Indies, 1842-1851; returned to England, serving as minister at Launceston, Kingsbridge, Ashburton and Bridgewater, 1851-1857; returned as missionary to Demerara, 1857-1861; missionary to Antigua, 1862-1866; returned to England and died at Weston-super-Mare, 1866.
Custodial history:
Immediate source of acquisition: Presented in 2000.
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
Scope and content/abstract: Diary, 1825-1827, of the Rev William Fidler, describing his voyage from Bristol to St Vincent accompanied by his wife Anna and other Methodist missionaries, and containing detailed descriptions of events and places during his first two years in the West Indies, and religious reflections.
System of arrangement:
ACCESS AND USE
Language: English
Conditions governing access: Unrestricted.
Conditions governing reproduction: No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
Finding aids: Database.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material: The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (Ref: MMS/WMMS), including letters from William Fidler (Ref: MMS/WMMS West Indies Correspondence).
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: Alphabetical Arrangement of Wesleyan Methodist Ministers (1862); Wesleyan Methodist Church Minutes of Conference (1867), pp 36-7.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2002
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- Subjects
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- Christianity
- Christians
- Clergy
- Diaries
- Evangelistic missionaries
- Literary forms and genres
- Maritime transport
- Methodism
- Methodists
- Missionaries
- Missionary work
- Nonfiction
- Ordained missionaries
- Prose
- Protestant nonconformists
- Protestant nonconformity
- Protestantism
- Protestants
- Religious activities
- Religious belief
- Religious groups
- Theology
- Transport
- Travel
- Travel abroad
- Christianity
- Personal names
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- Fidler | Anna | d 1859 | née Wale x Wale | Anna
- Fidler | William | 1795-1866 | missionary
- Fidler | Anna | d 1859 | née Wale x Wale | Anna
- Corporate names
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- Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
- Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
- Places
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- Avon
- Bristol
- Caribbean
- England
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- St Vincent
- UK
- West Indies
- Avon