James Hannington

James Hannington ( born September 3, 1847 in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, England; † October 29, 1885 in Kawirondo, Uganda ) was an Anglican bishop and missionary.

After Hannington had dropped out of school at age 15 and worked in his father's business, he decided at age 21, a theological training at St Mary 's Hall to start at Oxford. He finished his studies in 1872 with a bachelor's degree and in 1873 a deacon in Trentishoe in Devon.

In 1882, he decided to report to the mission in Africa. He embarked on May 17 a to Zanzibar, but soon had to return to England, as he did to create fever and dysentery. After he recovered, he was established in June 1884 as Bishop of Ostäquatorialafrika and came in January 1885 back to Africa, where he went ashore in Freretown near Mombasa in Kenya. He planned to travel to Lake Victoria in Uganda today, but at the border, he was the King Mwanga II of Buganda, the most powerful empire on the territory of Uganda, arrested, imprisoned and tortured. After a week, he and his companions were killed by soldiers Buganda. As his last words to his tormentors have survived, "Tell your king that I have cleared the way to Uganda through my blood. " Hanningtons assassination was the beginning of a wave of persecution of missionaries who were driven by the native rulers, whose influence in their own country rapidly decreased due to the increasing influence of European powers.

The Church of England has on 29 October and revered as a public holiday in commemoration of Hannington this as saints and martyrs.

• Anglican Bishop (19th Century )
• Christian missionary
• Briton
• Born in 1847
• Died in 1885
• Man