Georgina Gollock
Georgina Anne Gollock (1861 – 1940) was an Irish-born missionary, author and editor, "one of the unsung heroes of the ecumenical movement".[1] Gollock became interested in African education after the Phelpes Stokes investigations, and with her friend James Aggrey was committed "to propagating a kind of Christian pan-Africanism".[2]
Life
[edit]Georgina Gollock was born at Kinsale, County Cork on 26 May 1861. In 1890 she began working for the Church Missionary Society, working as an editorial assistant to Eugene Stock.[3]
A "woman of vigorous personality, wide knowledge and sound judgement",[4] in 1920 Gollock became associate editor, and in 1921 co-editor with J. H. Oldham, of the quarterly journal International Review of Missions.[5] She continued co-editing the journal until February 1927. "To her is owed much of the credit for what the International Review of Missions became".[4]
Gollock was also Secretary of the Board of Study for the Preparation of Missionaries.[4]
Works
[edit]- Candidates-in-waiting : a manual of home preparation for foreign missionary work, 1892
- What's o'clock? : a missionary book for boys and girls, 1893, With a preface by William Walsh, Bishop of Ossory.
- A winter's mails from Ceylon, India and Egypt: being journal letters written home, 1895
- Missionaries at work, 1898
- An introduction to missionary service, 1921
- Sons of Africa, 1928
- Lives of eminent Africans, 1928
- Eugene Stock: a biographical study, 1836 to 1928, 1929
- At the sign of the Flying Angel : a book of the sailor at the coastline, 1930
- Heroes of health, 1930
- Daughters of Africa, 1932
References
[edit]- ^ Bliss, Kathleen (1984). "The Legacy of J. H. Oldham". International Bulletin of Missionary Research. 8 (1): 18–24. doi:10.1177/239693938400800105. ISSN 0272-6122.
- ^ Prevost, Elizabeth E. (2017). "Anglican Mission in Twentieth-Century Africa". In William L. Sachs (ed.). The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume V: Global Anglicanism, c. 1910-2000. OUP Oxford. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-19-252095-1.
- ^ 'Georgina Ann Gollock', International Review of Missions, Vol. 30, Issue 2 (April 1941), p.242.
- ^ a b c William R. Hogg (2002). Ecumenical Foundations: A History of The International Missionary Council and its Nineteenth-Century Background. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 224–5. ISBN 978-1-59244-014-6.
- ^ Ruth Rouse & Stephen Neill, A History of the Ecumenical Movement, 1517-1948, p.363.
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