William Holman Bentley (1855-1905) was an English missionary,

Baptist Missionary Society BMS World Mission is a Mission (Christian), Christian missionary society founded by Baptists from England in 1792. It was originally called the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen, but for most of its ...

missionary in the

Congo Congo or The Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa: * Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...

Works

* ''Dictionary and grammar of the Kongo language as spoken at San Salvador, the ancient capital of the old Kongo Empire, Central Africa'', London: Baptist Missionary Society, 1886 * ''Life on the Congo'', London: Religious Tract Society, 1887 * ''Ekangu Diampa dia Mfumu eto Jizu Kristu wa Mvuluzi eto. Disekwelo muna kingrekia yamu kisi kongo'', London: British and Foreign Bible Society, 1893 * ''Pioneering on the Congo'', London: The Religious Tract Society, 1900.

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1855 births 1905 deaths English Baptist missionaries Christian missionaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo British expatriates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 19th-century Baptists {{Christianity-bio-stub