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Henry Hare Dugmore (1810–1896) was an English missionary, writer and translator. He was born in England to Isaac and Maria Dugmore and baptised in
List of descendants of H. H. Dugmore
1820 Settlers' National Monument
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dugmore, Henry Hare Translators of the Bible into Xhosa Methodist missionaries in South Africa South African evangelicals English Methodist missionaries Wesleyan Methodists Translators to Xhosa English Methodist hymnwriters 1810 births 1896 deaths 1820 Settlers 19th-century translators South African Methodists Missionary linguists
Henry Hare Dugmore (1810–1896) was an English missionary, writer and translator. He was born in England to Isaac and Maria Dugmore and baptised in Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1. ...
on 5 June 1810. The family emigrated when his father was financially ruined after being forced to pay the debts of a relative for whom he had stood surety. The Dugmore family sailed to South Africa on the vessel ''Sir George Osborn'' in 1820 as part of the Gardner party of 1820 Settlers
The 1820 Settlers were several groups of British colonists from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, settled by the government of the United Kingdom and the Cape Colony authorities in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1820.
Origins
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Conversion and missionary work
In 1830 Dugmore became a committed member of the Wesleyan Methodist church, and began to study for ordination. In the late 1830s he was appointed as the successor to the missionary William Boyce, who ran a Wesleyan mission station in the rural Eastern Cape at Mount Coke, nearKing William's Town
Qonce, formerly known as King William's Town, is a city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa along the banks of the Buffalo River (Eastern Cape), Buffalo River. The city is about northwest of the Indian Ocean port of East London, South ...
. Dugmore became fluent in the Xhosa language
Xhosa (, ) also isiXhosa as an endonym, is a Nguni language and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately 8.2 million people and by another 11 million as a secon ...
, and spent the next twenty years undertaking missionary work. He was jointly responsible for the first translation of the Bible into the Xhosa language, and composed a large number of Xhosa hymns, some of which are still sung today.
Later life
In 1860, Dugmore moved to the town of Queenstown where he spent the rest of his life. He continued to write and became involved in a large number of clubs and societies. In addition, he became the focus of many visits by missionaries from Europe and North America, and he was noted for his oratory and public speaking on sacred and secular subjects in both English and Xhosa.See also
*Xhosa people
The Xhosa people, or Xhosa-speaking people (; ) are African people who are direct kinsmen of Tswana people, Sotho people and Twa people, yet are narrowly sub grouped by European as Nguni ethnic group whose traditional homeland is primarily t ...
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*List of descendants of H. H. Dugmore
1820 Settlers' National Monument
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dugmore, Henry Hare Translators of the Bible into Xhosa Methodist missionaries in South Africa South African evangelicals English Methodist missionaries Wesleyan Methodists Translators to Xhosa English Methodist hymnwriters 1810 births 1896 deaths 1820 Settlers 19th-century translators South African Methodists Missionary linguists