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Updated: June 17, 2025
A rare sporting country is this district; and as the horses and their riders know it, there are comparatively few falls. Round Kempsford and Lechlade the Thames and the canal are apt to get in the way, but once clear of these impediments a very open country is entered, either of grass and flying fences or light plough and stone walls. Another style of country is that round Hannington and Crouch.
But the seed was faithfully sown, and the young man was afterwards converted, and became Bishop Hannington, the martyr bishop of Africa. Memory Verse: "For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist." Scripture for Meditation: John ix, 1-41.
So intense was the pain he suffered that he asked to be left alone that he might scream, as that seemed to bring some relief. Notwithstanding this suffering, the expedition started forward again on 16th October, Hannington being placed in a hammock. They reached Lake Victoria, but the leader could go no further.
In the year 1878 Hannington heard of the violent deaths which had befallen Lieut. Shergold Smith and Mr. O'Neil in Central Africa. From this time he became drawn towards mission work in that district. It was not, however, till the year 1882 that he finally entered into arrangements with the Church Missionary Society to go to Africa.
Hannington has kindly made a tracing of the page in the bishop's little pocket diary for 28th October, the day before his martyrdom took place. I am very glad to be able to give a reproduction of so interesting a memento. Seventh day's prison. Wednesday, 28th October. A terrible night, 1st with noisy, drunken guard, and 2nd with vermin which have found out my tent and swarm.
They took him prisoner, and, after some days, slew him as he stood defenceless before them. Hannington had been sent out to help Mackay and his fellow-Christians. Then the King fell ill. He believed that the boy Balikudembe, who had warned him not to kill the Bishop, had bewitched him.
Both at Oxford and at Martinhoe, in North Devon, where he spent some time during the vacations, Hannington preserved his reputation for fun and love of adventure. At Oxford he took part in practical jokes innumerable; at Martinhoe cliff-climbing and adventurous scrambles occupied some little of his time.
With a wild shout the savage warriors fell upon the Bishop's enfeebled followers, and their flashing spears speedily covered the ground with dead and dying. As the natives told off to murder him closed round, Hannington drew himself up and bade them tell the king that he was about to die for the people of Uganda, and that he had purchased the road to their country with his life.
"Send at once and kill him," cried the demented M'wanga. A boy named Balikudembe, a Christian, heard the order and he could not contain himself, but broke out, "Oh, King M'wanga, why are you going to kill a white man? Your father did not do so." But the soldiers went out, travelled east along the paths till they met the great Bishop Hannington being carried in a litter, stricken with fever.
Then as they still hesitated he pointed to his own gun, which one of them fired and Hannington fell dead. His last words to his friends scribbled by the light of some camp-fire were "If this is the last chapter of my earthly history, then the next will be the first page of the heavenly no blots and smudges, no incoherence, but sweet converse in the presence of the Lamb!"
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