A group photograph showing bishops at the Lambeth Conference of 1888
A black and white landscape photographic print showing 128 clergymen posing for a group photograph in front of one of the doors to Lambeth Palace. The diocese of each bishop is listed in a numbered key below. Original caption: ‘The Lambeth Conference, 1888’.
The Lambeth Conference is a meeting of bishops belonging to the Church of England, first held in 1867. This shows the third conference.
One of the bishops shown, seated on the first row and to the right of the image, is Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a celebrated linguist and the Church of England’s first African bishop. Born in the early nineteenth century in what is now Nigeria, he was enslaved by African and then Portuguese slavers before being freed by the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron. He is famous for working on Yoruba translations of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and the Bible.
The Lambeth Conference is a meeting of bishops belonging to the Church of England, first held in 1867. This shows the third conference.
One of the bishops shown, seated on the first row and to the right of the image, is Samuel Ajayi Crowther, a celebrated linguist and the Church of England’s first African bishop. Born in the early nineteenth century in what is now Nigeria, he was enslaved by African and then Portuguese slavers before being freed by the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron. He is famous for working on Yoruba translations of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer and the Bible.
Object Details
| ID: | ALB0344.14 |
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| Type: | Photographic print |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | 1888 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 219 mm x 310 mm |
| Parts: |
Lady Egidia (ship 1860) and Calcutta 1870s-1880s (Photograph album)
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