William Broadbent Luddington (March 1843 – November 1888) was a

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who went to the island of Fernando Po (today Bioko in

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) in about 1880. His father was also a Primitive Methodist Minister.

Background and Primitive Methodist ministry

He was born in

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in March 1843, and became a

minister at Malton in Yorkshire in 1864. From 1873 until his death in 1888 Luddington divided his life between missionary work in Fernando Po, particularly among the Bubi people, missionary deputation work and ministerial work in England. He and his wife returned from their third term in Fernando Po in a very poor state of health.

Bubi primer

Luddington compiled the first

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primer in 1875 along with co-missionary

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. Two copies of ''Bubi na English'' primer compiled by William B. Luddington & William N. Barleycorn, 1875 are available for consultation in SOAS Library.

External links

* http://www.mundus.ac.uk/cats/4/1315.htm 1843 births 1888 deaths English Methodist missionaries Methodist missionaries in Equatorial Guinea Missionary linguists {{UK-linguist-stub