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10 June 1869 - 1 August 1952 Poetry Listing Within this area you will be able to read, and give your thoughts on the poetry listed. Please, if you find an error, let me know. Read More About Arthur Shearly Cripps below poetry list
About: Arthur Shearly Cripps was an English Anglican priest, short story writer, and poet who spent most of his life in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Oxford. He then trained at Cuddeston Theological College, taking holy orders, and from 1894 had the parish Ford End in Essex. He became a missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, intending to work in Mashonaland, after reading criticism of the methods of Cecil Rhodes. From 1902 he had a parish near Enkeldoorn (now known as Chivhu) in what was then Southern Rhodesia.
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