Chauncy Maples

This article is about the Anglican missionary and sixth Bishop of Nyasaland. For the ship named after him, see SS Chauncy Maples.

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Archdeacon Chauncy Maples (on the left) with fellow missionary William Percival Johnson in 1895

Chauncy Maples (1852-95) was a British clergyman and Anglican missionary who became Bishop of Likoma in East Africa.^[1][2]

Born in 1852, Maples had sailed for Zanzibar in 1876 where he set up clinics and schools for released slaves. Ten years later he founded the Anglican Mission on Likoma Island.^[3] In 1895 Maples received recognition^[4] when he was consecrated as the sixth Bishop of Nyasaland.^[5]

A man of the cloth, while on the way to take up his duties, his boat capsized during a storm on the lake and he drowned^[6] because of the weight of his cassock.

In recognition of his role in East Africa, in 1901 the ship SS Chauncy Maples, the first steamship on Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi), was named after him.

References

1. ^ Dictionary of African Christian Biography
2. ^ Maples, Ellen (1897) Chauncy Maples: Pioneer Missionary in East Central Africa for Nineteen Years. London: Longman [1]
3. ^ Maples, Chauncy (1880) Masasi and the Rovuma District in East Africa. London: Royal Geographical Society
4. ^ Maples, Chauncy (1899) Journals and Papers of Chauncy Maples, Late Bishop of Likoma, Lake Nyasa. London: Longman [2]
5. ^ Hermitage-Day, E. (1901) Chauncy Maples, Second Bishop of Likoma, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1901
6. ^ Frere, Gertrude (1902) Where Black Meets White: the Little History of the UMCA. Westminster: Office of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa [3])

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