18 Facts About Graham Chadwick

Graham Charles Chadwick was a British Christian missionary in Lesotho and South Africa.

Graham Chadwick was educated in Swansea at the Bishop Gore School.

Graham Chadwick left the navy with the rank of sub-lieutenant.

Graham Chadwick completed his training at St Michael's College, Llandaff, and in 1950 was appointed to a curacy in Oystermouth in Swansea.

Graham Chadwick had begun to consider missionary work, and a chance meeting with John Maund, Bishop of Lesotho, led him to move to Lesotho in 1953.

Graham Chadwick taught himself Sesotho on the voyage to Cape Town, and for the next ten years ministered throughout Lesotho, covering up to 2000 miles a year on horseback.

In 1963 Graham Chadwick returned to Britain, taking up a position as chaplain at University College of Swansea for five years.

Graham Chadwick then undertook a sabbatical year at Queen's College, Birmingham, where he studied clinical psychology.

Graham Chadwick acted as the college's Senior Bursar during his year there, before undertaking a brief chaplaincy at St Thomas' Hospital, London.

In 1970 Graham Chadwick returned to Lesotho, where as Diocesan Missioner he was to build an ecumenical conference and training centre in Maseru, with the aim of building racial equality and reconciliation.

Graham Chadwick was enthroned in St Cyprian's Cathedral, Kimberley in a service complete with fanfares from Salvation Army trumpeters.

Graham Chadwick was then out of the country so it was Thomas Stanage, Dean of Kimberley, who was first informed that Mabija had died after apparently falling from the seventh-floor of the police station.

On his return Graham Chadwick protested against the death and against the continued detention of his clergy.

Graham Chadwick planted wooden crosses outside his cathedral for each day the detention continued, and encouraged the ringing of church bells in protest.

Graham Chadwick continued to work closely with other senior South African clergy, including Desmond Tutu, and to speak out against injustice.

Graham Chadwick managed to return to Kimberley in order to conduct the Easter services, and in one final show of defiance, preached in both the local languages of Sesotho and Setswana and, Afrikaans.

On his enforced return to Britain, Graham Chadwick began working as a chaplain at St Asaph's Cathedral and as diocesan adviser on spirituality.

Graham Chadwick is said to have been fluent in 11 languages, but no source lists them all.