GB 0102 MS 380335 - Crabtree, William Arthur

2 boxes

GB 0102 MS 380335 Created 1902-1921 Collection (fonds) 2 boxes Crabtree , William Arthur , b 1868 , missionary and philologist
William Arthur Crabtree was born c1868, at Darlington. He was educated at St. Peter's School, York and King's School, Canterbury. He also attended St. Catharine's College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He obtained a BA in 1889. In 1890 he trained at the Church Missionary College. On 23 November 1891 he was posted to the East Equatorial Africa Mission, Frere Town, with the Church Missionary Society. From 1892 to 1906, he worked as a missionary explorer in Uganda. His publications included Elements of Luganda Grammar, Together with Exercises and Vocabulary (1902, revised 1921), A Manual of Lu-Ganda (1921), and Primitive Speech (2 parts, 1922).

Bequeathed to SOAS and presented in 1982.

Papers, 1902-1921, collected by William Arthur Crabtree, including a card index of English/Bantu and Bantu/English vocabularies, incorporating 13 different Bantu languages and symbols relating to their hypothetical common roots, with some tentative conclusions about Bantu origins, together with material on Luganda and Kavirondo (Masaba dialect).

The material has been arranged into the following sections: Bantu origins; Luganda; Kavirondo (Masaba dialect); miscellaneous.

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
English, Bantu, Luganda, Kavirondo

Unpublished handlist.

Papers of Crabtree are held at the Church Missionary Society Archive, University of Birmingham Library.

15 May 2000 African languages Bantu languages Church Missionary Society Crabtree , William Arthur , b 1868 , missionary and philologist East Africa Indexes Lay missionaries Lexicography Linguistics Missionaries Religious groups Secondary documents Vocabularies

Bequeathed to SOAS and presented in 1982.

Papers, 1902-1921, collected by William Arthur Crabtree, including a card index of English/Bantu and Bantu/English vocabularies, incorporating 13 different Bantu languages and symbols relating to their hypothetical common roots, with some tentative conclusions about Bantu origins, together with material on Luganda and Kavirondo (Masaba dialect).

The material has been arranged into the following sections: Bantu origins; Luganda; Kavirondo (Masaba dialect); miscellaneous.

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

• Engels

• Latijn

English, Bantu, Luganda, Kavirondo

Unpublished handlist.

Papers of Crabtree are held at the Church Missionary Society Archive, University of Birmingham Library.

• Engels