Background
Willoughby, William Charles was born on March 16, 1857 in Redruth, Cornwall, England. Son of Richard and Ann (Willoughby) Willoughby.
Willoughby, William Charles was born on March 16, 1857 in Redruth, Cornwall, England. Son of Richard and Ann (Willoughby) Willoughby.
Graduate Spring Hill Theological College, Birmingham, England, 1882. Post-graduate work, same college, 1884-1885.
Ordained Congleton ministry, 1882. Joint-leader of a caravan of 475 Africans from Zanzibar to Unyamwezi, Africa, 1882. Pastor Mill St. Church, Perth, Scotland, 1885-1887.
Lecturing and preaching in England for London Missionary Society, 1887-1889. Pastor Union St. Church, Brighton, England, 1889-1893. Missionary, London Missionary Society in Bechuanaland, South Africa.
1893-1903; political adviser to King Khama on his visit to England, 1895. Founded, and presided over the Tiger Kloof Native Institution (missionary and industrial school, teachers’ training, and theological seminary), Bechuanaland, 1904-1914. Chairman S. African District of London Missionary Society, 1915-1917.
Sent as deputation from London Missionary Society to Congressional chs. of Australia and New Zealand, 1917, later visiting stations in islands of S. Pacific Ocean. Professor African missions, Kennedy School of Missions (Hartford Seminary Foundation), since October 1919.
Fellow Royal Anthropol. Institute Great Britain and Ireland.
Married Charlotte Elizabeth Pountney, of Birmingham, October 27, 1885, children—Howard (deceased), Godfrey, Doris, Edgar, Grace (deceased).