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| Date transcribed | 2011-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Schofield | | Comment | List of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India and South Asia extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae |
| | Section | India  | | | Volume | 9 | | | Page no. | 754 | | | Surname | Williams | | | Christian Name(s) | Aeneas Francon | | | Wife 1 Surname | Rendall | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Clara Anne | | | Children to 1st wife | Alfred Francon; Beatrice Clara | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Rendall | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | David | | | Body of text | AENEAS FRANCON WILLIAMS, born 17th February 1886 at Liscard, Liverpool, son of John Francon Williams, FRGS, and Barbara Balmain Dougall; educated privately, and at Technical Institute and Student Teacher Centre, Walthamstow 1900-6, University of Edinburgh and Moray House Training College 1906-8, New College 1932-3; Geography and Science Teacher, Kalimpong 1912-23; Principal of Church of Scotland Training Institution, Khang, China 1924-7; licensed by Presbytery of Eastern Himalaya 1928; ordained by same Presbytery at Silguri, North Bengal November 1928; admitted to Church of Scotland by Presbytery of Edinburgh 28th May 1932; missionary pastor Mahakalguri, East Duars 1927-32; minister of Jalpaiguri Parish, Bengal 1932-47; retired 18th February 1947; assistant prison chaplain Saughton, Edinburgh 1948-54; chaplain Social Services Department Edinburgh from 1952. Married 2nd December 1912, Clara Anne, born 24th July 1887, daughter of David Rendall and Elizabeth Mackay Kent, and has issue, Alfred Francon, MB, ChB (Edinburgh), born 7th October 1916 at Kalimpong, married Jane Smith (died 9th May 1954), Sheffield; Beatrice Clara, hospital nurse, born 7th October 1916 at Kalimpong, married Dr S Ian Pugh. Publications � Everyone's Book of the Weather, London, 1923; Surveying for Everyone, London, 1925; Dreamdrift, London, 1932; Four Little Dears (Mech Mission pamphlet), Edinburgh (Church of Scotland), 1930; A Mech Hymn Book, Calcutta, 1932; A Mech Catechism, Calcutta, 1933; Primer for Schools in Jalpaiguri Mech, Calcutta, 1934; Eastern Himalaya, Edinburgh (Church of Scotland), 1942; Companion in Meditation, Edinburgh (P.P.), 1950; biography of Rev. J A Graham, DD, in Dictionary of National Biography 1941-50; contributions in religious periodicals |
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