George Grenfell

George Grenfell ( born August 21, 1849 in Sancreed in Penzance, Cornwall, † July 1, 1906 in Basako the Congo ) was an English missionary and African explorer.

Grenfell went in 1874 on behalf of the Baptist Missionary Society to Cameroon, where he founded the station in Victoria, where he explored the delta of the Cameroon River, together with Thomas Comber 1876-1879. Later he was active in the central Congo basin. He explored 1885 Lulango with Curt von François and the Mohongi up to the rapids of Songo. In 1886 he went to the lower reaches of the Kuango and the waterfronts of Leopold II - and from Mantumbasees.

George Grenfell died on 1 July 1906 in Basako the Congo.

Publications

  • Life on the Congo. By W [ illiam ] Holman Bentley; with an introd. by George Grenfell. London: The Religious Tract Society, 1887.
  • The upper Congo. Geographical Journal, Vol 20 (1902 )
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