The second meeting of the month is being held (3
on 29th September 19719 7.30 p.m¢ at Mrs. Harveys .)
'Downstream" 6 Bridgeford Closee The topic of
which will be ‘Driving Instruction‘ given by
Mr.J.A.Smith.

FIT-‘AL REMIEIDEE
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v.ILLA.G;?. 
IX Dr.Beke ‘
Dr. Beke came from an old Kent family which in
the Xllc gave its name to Bekesbourne and he
resided in that villaee for a number of years and
was buried in the Church on the 5th August 1874.
he was educated at a private school in Hackney,
decided on a business career which took him to
Genoa and Naples, then he studied at Lincolns Inn

and then took up biblical and archeological research
and gained a Ph,D from Tubingen University and from
July l837—38 was British consul in Leipzig and it

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is to him we owe the privilege of British Consu 3 eeing
permitted to solemnize marriages in foreign countries.
In IBHO he went to Abyssinia t) open up commercial links
and discover the sources of the Nile and for a time
worked with Speke,the great Victorian explorer. He was
responsible for mapping over 70,000 square miles of
Abyssinia and made a study of #0 languages and dialects:
Later he went and carried out similar work in wrat is
now Tanzania. He was much in iemand on his return to
Jngland and several times addressed potential recruits
to_the Foreign Service. In 1845 he married a Miss Emily
Alston from Mauritius who came of a rich sugar family
and the rest of his life seems to have been devoted to
travel. In 1861 he travelled to Syria and Palestine to
study localities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and
in the same year he was engaged in a great, sometimes
acrimonious correspondence on the exodus of the Israel~

ites and the position of Mount Sinai with B'.hop Colenso

is;

On one trip a steamer was placed at his disposal by the
Kedive of Egypt to go up and down the Lile In 1870
he wrote “Africa's dark continent possessed fertile

re¢ions, large rivers and lakes and an immense

‘population which is not civilized was yet to a large

extent endowed with kindly manners and industrious
habits,”

J. J. Williamson

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