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A Triumph of Patience and Purposiveness: Linton of Betong

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Brian Taylor
Brian Taylor*
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Guildford
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From 1869 until the founding of the diocese of Singapore in 1909, the missions and chaplaincies in Singapore and what is now West Malaysia were within the jurisdiction of the diocese of Labuan, which itself had been founded as a legal fiction in 1855 as the stock onto which the bishopric for Rajah James Brooke’s Sarawak could be grafted. Although the diocese and the bishopric were constitutionally distinct, as succeeding bishops were often reminded by the rajahs of Sarawak, the bishops looked at the whole area of their spiritual leadership, and regarded the staffing of it as one problem—or opportunity. G. F. Hose himself, bishop of Labuan 1881–1908, and of Sarawak 1882–1908, had served in the Straits Settlements from 1868, and had been archdeacon of Singapore for his predecessor, Bishop Chambers. For sixty-two years the St Andrew’s Church Mission in Singapore, the base for work among Asians, had as superintendent two priests, W. H. Gomes, 1872—1902, and Richard Richards, 1902–34. Both had previously worked in Borneo, for more than fourteen and twelve years respectively. In the opposite direction Bishop Hose transferred to Kuching in 1898 A. F. Sharp, who had worked for six years in Singapore.

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 26: The Ministry: Clerical and Lay , 1989 , pp. 433 - 444
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1989

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References

1 See Taylor, B., ‘Church and State in Borneo: the Anglican Bishopric’, SCH 12, pp. 357–63.Google Scholar

2 This spelling is adopted for consistency with quotations that follow.

3 Runciman, S., The White Rajahs (Cambridge, 1960), p. 211.Google Scholar

4 See Sharp, A. F., The Spirit Saith (London, 1954)Google Scholar.

5 See, for example, correspondence in Lambeth Palace Library, Davidson: 1912 L1 Labuan; box 1 Labuan 1916.

6 Oxford Rhodes House, USPG CLS 58, 26 October 1917.

7 ‘Iban’ is synonymous with ‘Sea Dyak’.

8 Borneo Mission Association Report for 1919, p. 10.

9 USPG CLR 77, 3 July 1922.

10 Historical Notes (typescript C1928), p. 41.

11 See Taylor, B., The Anglican Church in Borneo 1848–1962 (Bognor, 1983)Google Scholar under Betong, Linton, Saribas; also accounts in The Chronicle (quarterly report of the Borneo Mission Association) and the annual Reports of the BMA.

12 USPG CLR 77, 1 June 1923.

13 BMA Report for 1925, p. 6. Thomas Buda had been ordained in 1924, for work among the Bukar Land Dyaks at Tai-i.

14 BMA Report for 1923, p. 23.

15 USPG CLR 78, 10 October 1923.

16 USPG E 8, 6 May 1931.

17 Chronicle, August 1931, p. 5.

18 BMA Report for 1930, p. 22.

19 Ibid., 1931.pp. 23–4.

20 ibid., 1928, p. 36.

21 P.H.H. Howes to the author, 12 December 1987.

22 USPG E 84, 17 November 1929.

23 Canterbury Cathedral, City and Diocesan Record Office, SAC Linton file, 2 July 1931.

24 USPG D 45 Linton to SPG, 26 September 1932.

25 Miss M. C. Rogers to the author, 30 January 1988.

26 P. H. H. Howes as n. 21 above.