Grenfell, George, 1849-1906

found: Makulo La vie de Disasi Makulo, 1982:leaf 36 (Grenfell, George, missionary and explorer, b. England 8/2/1849, d. Basoko 7/1/1906)

found: Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, 2001(Grenfell, Reverend George (1849-1906). Cornish missionary in Africa. Surveys of the rivers of the Cameroons, 1874; manuscript maps of the Congo, from 1880; surveys of the Congo River, 1884-1889 used in Map of the Congo River between Leopoldville and Stanley Falls, Royal Geographic Society 1902)

found: George Grenfell and the Congo, 1910:p. 1 (b. Aug. 21, 1849 in parish of Sancreed; of Cornish birth but raised in the Midlands, in Birmingham) p. 2-3 (began missionary work in 1874 in the Duala communities of the Cameroons River estuary; estab. himself at Musuko on the Lower congo in 1880; returned in England in 1881 to supervise completing of the Baptist Missionary Society's first steamer on the Upper Congo, the Peace; returned to Congo in 1883; d. July 1, 1906 at Basoko) p. 16 (the "Peace" was the steamer on which Grenfell made his principal exploring journeys)

found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Grenfell, George; explorer, Baptist missionary; born 21 August 1849 in Sancreed, England; enrolled at the Baptist College in Bristol (1873); joined the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) (1874); arrived at Cameroons Town (present-day Douala) (1875); climbed and mapped the southern sections of Mount Cameroon and traveled up a series of rivers; resigned from the BMS (1878); rejoined his former colleagues as the head of the new BMS station at the mouth of the Congo river (1880); traveled the Aruwimi, Kwango, Kiva, Kasai, Busira, Sankuru, Luebo, Ubangi, Mbomou, and Lulua rivers; managed to establish his first upriver mission at Lukolela (1886); his writings remain one of the most valuable sources on societies in the Congo basin in the late nineteenth century; the Independent State of the Congo repeatedly rejected his requests to establish churches on the Aruwimi; died 01 June 1906 in Basoko, Congo)