Amalric-Frédéric Buscarlet (1836 in

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– 19 February 1928 in Pau) worked in turn in Italy, Switzerland and France as a minister of the

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Biography

A branch of the Buscarlet family, originating from

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, France, settled in

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during the 18th century. Marc, a glovemaker, came to

in about 1776 and founded the present family line. The Reverend Amalric-Frédéric BuscarletPhotographic portrait of 1907, by Francis de Jongh: Archives cantonales vaudoises, PP 540/38, T 205/3 14/14 was son of Jules- éonard(1807–1882), who in 1834 married Frances Eliza, daughter of Robert Bowen of

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, in

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. Having studied theology in Geneva, Jules was ordained minister in 1833 and worked in Florence (1834), in

(1835) at the mission of the Genevan Evangelical Society in Pau ( Basses-Pyrénées, France), then at the Free Church of Pau (1838–1849), finally in

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(1849–1858). It is thought that his son, Amalric-Frédéric Buscarlet, was adopted by an aunt, with whom he lived in England until the age of twelve. He then returned to France, where he completed his education in

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, and then went to

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, to study in the Theology Faculty of the Free Church. After a short stay in

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as a suffragan minister, he was ordained as a minister in 1861 and appointed to a newly founded Scottish Church in

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. He worked there for thirteen years, taking particular interest in educational charities and in the construction of a church, a manse and a school. A.-F. Buscarlet also stayed temporarily in

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during the tourist season, acting as a chaplain in the Scottish chapel which had been newly built in 1872–1873. He was called to

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in 1874, where he organised religious services for a small congregation. In 1876 he was nominated for the newly created post of minister of the

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. He quickly managed to have a church built following the plans of the French architect

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. It was inaugurated in 1877. A.-F. Buscarlet exerted a great influence on the young English speakers studying at the finishing schools of Lausanne. More than three thousand are said to have followed his Bible studies. More generally, he was much involved in promoting the Protestant cause in Europe and in evangelization in Italy; he was also a member of the Sunday Observance Society. In 1907, he accepted the leadership of the English-speaking Church in Pau, but remained honorary minister in Lausanne until 1910. A trip to Canada in 1910 to visit his son in Manitoba gave him the opportunity of establishing contacts which, one year later, gained him a doctorate in divinity from the Presbyterian Theology College in

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. A brass plaque commemorates his pastoral activities in the

(engraved in London 1931). His wife Anna, née Willett, of Norfolk, died in Lausanne in 1905 (plaque in the

). She gave him a daughter, Florence Margaret (born in 1862 in Naples, spinster, died at Pau in 1943) and two sons, who began their education in Lausanne at the Collège Galliard in 1876–1879. ''Frederick Willett'', born in 1863 in

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, became a farmer in

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, where he died in 1959. ''Francis Charles'', born in Hethersett

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in 1865, studied civil engineering at the

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(1885–1888) and started his career in India, working for a railway company in

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(1890–1893). He was then employed on the west coast of Canada. On his return to England, he settled first in Newcastle, then in

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, working for the

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. He died in 1957 in

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Sources

* Archives cantonales vaudoises : Dossier ATS (Buscarlet), and Fonds PP 540, The Scots Kirk Lausanne. * Daniel Buscarlet, ''De Millau à Genève : une famille du Refuge, les Buscarlet et leurs descendants'', s. l., s. n., 1983, 30 p.

References

.Eugène-Louis Dumont, ''Armorial genevois'', Genève 1961, Sven Stelling-Michaud (dir.) ''Le livre du recteur de l’Académie de Genève (1559–1878)'', Genève 1966, II, . Archives cantonales vaudoises, dossier ATS. ''Feuille d'avis de Lausanne'', 16 June 1931, . ''Tribune de Lausanne'', 17 June 1931, Kind communication of Jill Juskiw. ''Le Collège Galliard et son fondateur'', Lausanne 1901, et 183. http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=1158798, Royal Indian Engineering College Coopers Hill. Records.

External links

The Scots Kirk Lausanne

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966] {{DEFAULTSORT:Buscarlet, Amalric-Frederic 1836 births 1928 deaths People from Nice 19th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland People from Lausanne 20th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland