Luddington, William Broadbent

IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 102 MMS Biographical Series, Box 598 (Lud)
Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies Library
Domain: archival
Title: Luddington, William Broadbent
Date(s) of contents: 1873-1875
Level of description: Fonds
Extent and medium: 2 vols

CONTEXT

Name of creator(s):

Administrative/Biographical history: William Broadbent Luddington was born at Brampton in Lincolnshire in March 1843, the son of a Primitive Methodist Minister. He himself became a minister of that church at Malton in Yorkshire in 1864. From 1873 until his death in 1888 Luddington divided his life between missionary work in Fernando Po [Bioko], particularly among the Bubi people, missionary deputation work and ministerial work in England. He and his wife returned from their third term in Fernando Po in a very poor state of health. Mrs Luddington died in August 1888 and her husband in the following November.

Custodial history:

Immediate source of acquisition: Deposited on permanent loan with the records of the Methodist Missionary Society in 1978.

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

Scope and content/abstract: Luddington's Diary in two volumes, dated April 1873 to March 1875, entitled "Journal of our Mission at George's Bay, Fernando Po". Both volumes are indexed.

System of arrangement: *

ACCESS AND USE

Language: English

Conditions governing access: Unrestricted but only to be viewed on microfiche.

Conditions governing reproduction: No publication without prior permission in writing. Apply to SOAS Archives in first instance

Finding aids: A Handlist to the Biographical Series of the MMS Archive is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room in SOAS Library.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material: The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the Methodist Missionary Society (Ref: WMMS/MMS), including letters and reports from individual missionaries.

Two copies of Bubi na English primer compiled by William B. Luddington & William N. Barleycorn, 1875 are available for consultation in SOAS Library.

Copies of letters, dated 1887-1888, from Mr and Mrs Luddington to their daughter have recently been received in the Library but are not yet available for consultation. Apply to SOAS Archives for further information.

Copies: The MMS archive to 1945 is available in a microfiche edition published by IDC.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Date(s) of descriptions: 2005

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects

Diaries

Missionaries

Personal names

Luddington | William Broadbent | 1843-1888 | missionary

Corporate names

Primitive Methodist Missionary Society

Places

Africa

Bioko

Fernando Po

West Africa