Henry Callaway

Henry Callaway (January 17, 1817 in either Lymington, Hampshire, or Somerset – March 26, 1890) was a missionary for the Church of England and a bishop of St. John's, Kaffraria, in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). Henry Callaway was the son of a bootmaker. He was educated at Crediton Grammar School and became a teacher in 1835. His headmaster was a Quaker, and Callaway soon joined the Society of Friends. Later, he was a chemist's assistant and a surgeon's assistant. He began to study surgery and in 1842 he was licensed by the Royal College of Surgeons. He was licensed by the Apothecaries' Society in 1844. He married Ann Chalk in 1845. In 1852, when his health began to fail, he...