Butterworth, Edmund (1841-1864)

Rev Edmund Butterworth

The Missionary Echo of the United Methodist Free Churches, 1900 p39

Graves of the Missionaries at Ribe

Brewin, Robert Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Wakefield, wife of the Rev. T. Wakefield, United Methodist Free Churches missionary in Eastern Africa . London : Hamilton, Adams, & Co.. 1879, p293

Edmund Butterworth was the first of a number of young men who went out to the East African mission field and died young.

He was born in Manchester on 17 January 1841 and died at Ribe on 2 April 1864. He is buried there, alongside his colleague Charles New and Rebecca Wakefield.

His obituarist, and the editor of the United Methodist Free Churches Magazine both felt that he had great promise, but the only evidence of his ministry is his letters back to the Missionary Society, and his obituary, both of which are attached to this account.

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The letters of Rev Edmund Butterworth describing his voayage to, and arrival in East Africa (882 KB Adobe Acrobat document, opens in a new window)

UMFC Magazine, Vol.7, 1864 pp478-480

The obituary of Rev. Edmund Butterworth (1 MB Adobe Acrobat document, opens in a new window)

UMFC Magazine Vol. 7, 1864 pp519-523

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