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Leonard Sharland
Leonard William Chapple Sharland LTh MA (1904–1978) was a pioneer missionary amongst the Dinka people, Dinka people with the Gordon Memorial Mission of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in South Sudan, southern Sudan in the middle of the 20th century. Early life Leonard Sharland was born on 30 August 1904 in Well Street, Exeter and moved with the family at and early age to Camperdown Terrace, Exmouth, Devon. He was from a Devonian family which for many generations had lived in Morchard Bishop. His parents William and Ethel Sharland moved from Exeter to Exmouth not long after Leonard was born. The family then moved to a terraced house in Clifford Road, Wallasey, Cheshire, in 1911. Leonard left school at 14 years old during the 1st World War to work as an office boy for an estate agent. Despite leaving school so young, Leonard studied in the evenings and was admitted to St Aidan's College, Birkenhead, St Aidan's Theological College, Birkenhead, where he obtained a Licentiate of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Sharland While In Sudan
Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English language, English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek wikiwikiweb:Λέων, Λέων ("lion") through the Latin ''Leo (given name), Leo,'' and the suffix ''hardu'' ("brave" or "hardy"). The name has come to mean "lion strength", "lion-strong", or "lion-hearted". Leonard was the name of a Saint in the Middle Ages period, known as the patron saint of prisoners. Leonard is also an Irish people, Irish origin surname, from the Irish language, Gaelic ''O'Leannain'' also found as O'Leonard, but often was anglicised to just Leonard, consisting of the prefix ''O'' ("descendant of") and the suffix ''Leannan'' ("lover"). The oldest public records of the surname appear in 1272 in Huntingdonshire, England, and in 1479 in Ulm, Germany. Variations The name has variants in other languages: * Leen, Leendert, Lenard (Dutch) * Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |