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John Dacre Vincent
The Right Reverend, The Rt Rev John Dacre Vincent Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin), MA Military Cross, MC and bar (1 January 1894 – 19 May 1960) was the Anglican Diocese of Namibia, Bishop of Damaraland, Namibia from 1952 to 1960. He was born on 1 January 1894, educated at Marlborough College, Marlborough and St John's College, Oxford, and ordained in 1921 after World War I service with the Devonshire Regiment. He began his ecclesiastical career with a Curate, curacy at Gillingham, Dorset and was then a Minor Canon at Bloemfontein Cathedral. After this he was Vicar of Longbridge Deverill in Wiltshire until 1937 when he returned to Bloemfontein as its Archdeacon, a position he held until his elevation to the episcopate. Vincent died on 19 May 1960, aged 66.The Times, Tuesday, 24 May 1960; pg. 17; Issue 54779; col A ''Obituary Bishop of Damaraland'' References 1894 births 1960 deaths People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of St John's College, Oxford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damaraland
Damaraland was a name given to the north-central part of what later became Namibia, inhabited by the Damara (people), Damaras. It was bounded roughly by Ovamboland in the north, the Namib Desert in the west, the Kalahari Desert in the east, and Windhoek in the south. In the 1970s the name Damaraland was revived for a bantustan in South West Africa (present-day Namibia), intended by the apartheid government to be a self-governing homeland for the Damara people. A centrally administered local government was created in 1980. The bantustan Damaraland was situated on the western edge of the territory that had been known as Damaraland in the 19th century. Damaraland, like other homelands in South West Africa, was abolished in May 1989 at the start of the Namibian War of Independence, transition to independence. The name Damaraland predates South African control of Namibia, and was described as "the central portion of German South West Africa" in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
