NATIVE LIFE ON THE TRANSVAAL BORDER

64 pages, oblong 70 illustrations, brown cloth titled red on the upper cover with gilt crest, watermarks at the top of many pages, a good copy.

Obituary from the Times June 23 1938:Dr. W. C. Willoughby, F.R.G.S., who gave many years devoted service as a missionary in Africa. died at Birmingham on June 19 at the age of 81. William Charles Willoughby was born on March 16. 1857 to Richard Willoughby at Redruth. Cornwall, was educated at Tiverton, and received his training at Spring Hill College, Birmingham. In 1882, having been ordained as a Congregational minister, he volunteered for service in the Central Africa Mission - then newly established by the London Missionary Society, but within 12 months contracted malaria and was compelled to come home. As his return to the mission field seemed barred, he accepted in 1887 the pastorate of the Congregational Church at Perth. Some what later he moved to Union Street Congregational Church, Brighton. But during all those years his heart was in Africa. In l893 the board of the London Missionary Society appointed him to straighten out difficulties that had arisen in Phalapye, the capital of Khama, the leading chief among the Bechuana. He soon won the confidence of the native chiefs, and when, after the Matabele War, it was proposed to hand over the Bechuanaland Protectorate to the Chartered Company, be was chosen by Khama and two other chiefs, Bathoen and Sebele, to be their adviser in a personal appeal to the British Government. They came together to this country in 1895, and it was largely due to Willoughby that the protest of the natives was successful: - He remained working among the Bechana for eight years and was then selected as the first Principal of the new Tiger Kloof Educational Institution, which he had founded near Vryburg, Bechuanaland.http://www.jimandhelen.com/William_Charles_Willoughby.pdf