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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge fonds [textual record (microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1786-1966.

Reference:

R17374-0-5-E, MG17-B9

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101892

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge fonds
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Date(s):

1786-1966.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

6 microfilm reels negative and positive.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of selections relating to Canada and Australia from the following classes of S.P.C.K. records: Foreign Translation Committee Minute Books, 1834-1917; Emigration Committee Minute Books, 1882-1966; Ladies Emigration Committee Minute Books, 1897-1921; Overseas Grant Books, 1840-1961; and Secretary's Letterbooks, 1843-1860. This material is located on microfilm reels A-1898 to A-1903.

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge : Church of England Missionary Society

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge was founded in London on 8 March 1699 at the instance of the Reverend Dr. Thomas Bray (1656-1730), rector of Sheldon, who was also instrumental in the foundation of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (see MG 17, B 1). Its Royal Charter of 1700 prescribed that it be headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, with two thirds of its members being London clergymen and the remainder men "eminent for their work and affection to religion and the Church of England".

After the establishment of the S.P.G., the S.P.C.K. left the work of mission administration more and more to that sister society and concentrated its efforts on the funding of bishoprics, churches, missions, colleges, etc. For approximately a 100 years, from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, it supplied voyage and port chaplains and matrons to care for British emigrants. It was also particularly interested in the translation and publication of religious books and tracts, and in the establishment of libraries and bookshops.

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General note:

Microfilmed from originals in the possession of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, England, in a joint copying project undertaken, 1987-1989, by the National Archives of Canada, the National Library of Australia, and the State Library of New South Wales.
Documents created in: London, England.

Location of originals note:

The originals are located with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, England.
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Missions - Canada, 1786-1966 Church of England Missionary Society, 1788-1966

Missions - Australia, 1786-1966

Religious organizations - Canada, 1786-1966

Religious organizations - Australia, 1786-1966

Missionary organizations - Canada, 1786-1966

Missionary organizations - Australia, 1786-1966

Missionaries - Canada, 1786-1966

Missionaries - Australia, 1786-1966

Great Britain - Emigration and immigration - Canada, 1786-1966

Great Britain - Emigration and immigration - Australia, 1786-1966
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Private

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1989/0140 MSS

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MG17-B9
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