Missionary Gallery

Victorian mother and three children (Polhill-Turner family)

A Victorian mother and three children. They are Mrs Polhill-Turner (nee Emily Frances Barron, d 1913)), wife of Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner (1826-1881), with Alice (Alice Kate Frances, 1856-1931), Arthur (Arthur Twistleton, 1862-1935) and Beatrice (Emily Beatrice Violet, d 1930). They lived at Howbury Hall, Renhold, Bedfordshire. Arthur, along with his brother Cecil (Cecil Henry, 1860-1938), formed part of the so-called Cambridge Seven in the 1880s and spent many years in China as a Christian missionary

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Gill Stoker

Papua New Guinea - Elevara Mission and L.M.S Mission

Papua New Guinea - Elevara Village and the L.M.S. Mission. The London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans and Nonconformists, largely Congregationalist in outlook, with missions in the islands of the South Pacific and Africa. Date: circa 1920s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Samuel Hearne's Expedition to northern Canada 1769

Samuel Hearne watching a Native American sword-swallower 58, North American beaver, Castor canadensis 59 and Indians boiling water in a wooden barrel with hot stones 60. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes in America, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travelers, John Harris, London, 1821

© Florilegius