A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Watson Fox, B.A. of Wadham College... - 9781108008372

A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Watson Fox, B.A. of Wadham College, OxfordMissionary to the Telugu People, South India\nAuthor(s): George Townshend Fox\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108008372, 978-1108008372\nSynopsis\nGeorge Fox [tel] compiled this memoir of his younger brother to inspire Rugby schoolboys to emulate this devout alumnus and become missionaries themselves. It was first published in 1850; the 1880 edition reissued here was the sixth printing and included a new preface and appendix recounting the successful establishment of the Rugby Fox Mastership at Masulipatam, India, where Fox had preached among the Telugu people of the British Madras Presidency. Containing an impressive quantity of personal letters and excerpts from his journal, the book provides insights into Fox's spiritual development and religious trials in the first half of the nineteenth-century. It includes unsympatheti.