14 Facts About James Hannington

James Hannington was an English Anglican missionary and martyr.

James Hannington was the first Anglican bishop of East Africa.

For James Hannington's early education a tutor had been engaged, but when he was thirteen he was sent to the Temple School at Brighton, where he remained for the next two-and-a-half years, although he was an indifferent student.

James Hannington left school at fifteen to work in his father's Brighton counting house.

James Hannington obtained a commission in the 1st Sussex Artillery Volunteer Corps in 1864 and rose to the rank of major.

In that year the chapel which James Hannington's father had built on the grounds of his property in 1852 was licensed for Anglican services.

James Hannington had by then been married for five years.

Around 1882, James Hannington heard of the murder of two missionaries on the shores of Lake Victoria.

Crippled by fever and dysentery, James Hannington was forced to return to England in 1883.

James Hannington's diocese included missions of the CMS at the coast and inland in Buganda.

James Hannington was oblivious to the political consequences of traversing Busoga, a strategically sensitive area for the Buganda state.

Mwanga forbade James Hannington from continuing through Busoga and sent boats to take him to Sukumaland, but James Hannington refused.

The location of James Hannington's remains was divulged to Bishop Alfred Tucker in 1892 and on 31 December 1892, his remains were reburied at Namirembe.

James Hannington is commemorated by the Hannington memorial chapel in Namirembe Cathedral, Kampala, Uganda.