William Broadbent Luddington (March 1843 – November 1888) was a

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who went to the island of Fernando Po (today

Bioko Bioko (; ; ; historically known as Fernando Pó, ) is an island of Equatorial Guinea. It is located south of the coast of Cameroon, and northwest of the northernmost part of mainland Equatorial Guinea. Malabo, on the north coast of the is ...

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) in about 1880. His father was also a Primitive Methodist Minister.

Background and Primitive Methodist ministry

He was born in

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in March 1843, and became a

minister at Malton in Yorkshire in 1864. From 1873 until his death in 1888 Luddington divided his life between missionary work in Fernando Po, particularly among the Bubi people, missionary deputation work and ministerial work in England. He and his wife returned from their third term in Fernando Po in a very poor state of health.

Bubi primer

Luddington compiled the first

Bubi Bubi may refer to: * Bubi people, an ethnic group in Central Africa * Bubi language, a Bantu language spoken in Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea * Bubi District, Zimbabwe * Bubi River, a tributary of the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe * BuBi, a bicy ...

primer in 1875 along with co-missionary

William Barleycorn William Napoleon Barleycorn (1848–1925), born in Santa Isabel, Fernando Po, Spanish Guinea and a Krio Fernandino of Igbo descent, was a Primitive Methodist missionary who went to Fernando Po (now known as Bioko) in Africa in the early 1880s. ...

. Two copies of ''Bubi na English'' primer compiled by William B. Luddington & William N. Barleycorn, 1875 are available for consultation in SOAS Library.

External links

* http://www.mundus.ac.uk/cats/4/1315.htm 1843 births 1888 deaths English Methodist missionaries Methodist missionaries in Equatorial Guinea Missionary linguists {{UK-linguist-stub