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Seager, Rev Cecil Edward


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380675

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Seager, Rev Cecil Edward

Date(s): Created 1930s-1990s

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 box

Name of creator(s): Seager | Cecil Edward | b 1908 | missionary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Cecil Edward Seager was born on 1 April 1908, in Leicester. He was educated at Leeds Modern School (Secondary) between 1913 and 1926. On leaving school, he was accepted as a missionary student at the United Independent College, Bradford. He took an arts course at Edinburgh University, graduating with an MA in October 1931. He went on to read for a theology course at the United Independent College, which he completed in June 1933. In the same year he was appointed as a missionary with the London Missionary Society. He was posted to Inyati, Southern Rhodesia, where he became Principal of the Institution (school), with additional charge of the Inyati District. From 1937, he and his wife were stationed at Tjimali and Dombodema, Matabeleland. In 1941, he resigned from the London Missionary Society and took up alternative ministerial work in southern Africa.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Material, 1930s-1990s, relating to southern Africa and the work of Cecil Edward Seager. Includes a video and transcript of early cine-film from the period in which Seager was stationed at Dombodema and Tjimali (1930s-1940s); correspondence (1933-1994); press cuttings; and typescripts of a play written by Seager entitled A Christian Cavalcade (1948).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Unpublished handlist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1996 and 1997.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Date(s) of descriptions: 15 May 2000


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Clergy | Religious groups
Congregationalism | Protestant nonconformity | Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Congregationalists | Protestant nonconformists | Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Drama | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Educational missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Educational missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Ordained missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Press cuttings | Newspaper press | Press
Religious movements | Religious institutions
Video recordings | Audiovisual materials | Recordings
Nonconformity

Personal names
Seager | Cecil Edward | b 1908 | missionary

Corporate names
Missionary Society x LMS | London Missionary Society x London Missionary Society

Places
Dombodema | Matabeleland | Zimbabwe | Southern Africa
Inyati | Matabeleland | Zimbabwe | Southern Africa
Tjimali | Matabeleland | Zimbabwe | Southern Africa
Southern Rhodesia x Zimbabwe