Memoirs of the Rev. William Henry Angas, ordained a 'Missionary to Seafaring Men', May 11, 1822
London, Thomas Ward & Co., 1834.
Duodecimo, [iv], xii, 224 pages.
Contemporary half diced roan and marbled boards; name clipped from the front free endpaper; some occasional light foxing; minor signs of age and handling; an excellent copy.
The brother of South Australian pioneer George Fife Angas, William Henry Angas (1781-1832) 'was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne 6 Oct. 1781; went to sea and was captured by a French privateer, and imprisoned for a year and a half. He afterwards commanded ships of his father's, but became a Baptist minister in 1817 after a year's study at Edinburgh. In 1822 he was appointed missionary to seafaring men by the "British and Foreign Seamen's Friend Society and Bethel Union." He travelled to various ports and foreign countries for religious purposes, and was serving a chapel at South Shields, when he died of cholera 9 Sept. 1832' ('Dictionary of National Biography'). The first appendix comprises nautical aphorisms from his commonplace book.
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