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“A picnic shortly after Mr & Mrs Macpherson arrived, showing also Mrs Knapp, Miss Hall, Dr Arthur. [top L to R] [? Miss Hall], Joy, Mrs Knapp, Dr Arthur, Mac: [bottom l to R] Tony, Ken, Mrs Mac: Geoff.” Group portrait of members of the mission having tea outside. Mr Robert Macpherson was the headmaster and supervisor of schools at Chogoria, 1930-1940, and was married to Alta Knapp, the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs William P Knapp of the Gospel Missionary Society of America based at Kambui. John William Arthur headed the mission at Kikuyu. Margaret Irvine [Joy], Dr Irvine [far left] and their three sons are also pictured. ❧ Image from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the early years of the Chogoria mission, established near Mt Kenya in 1922 and run by Dr Irvine, ministering to the Chuka and Mwimbi peoples.
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