Dates of creation: 1936 to 1992
Extent: 1 box
CCCW Catalogue: FAL
Keywords: India, Sri Lanka, United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

Thomas Falkner (1904-1983), graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1925 and worked for the Cambridge Mission to Delhi, including as a teacher at St. Stephen’s College and as secretary and treasurer to the Archdeaconry (later Diocese) of Delhi. On his return to the UK and marriage to Kathleen he continued to support the Indian church. The collection is of mainly of published ephemeral material for India with an emphasis on religious material (Christianity and other faiths). It also includes reports of a social work volunteer whom Kathleen sponsored in Sri Lanka in 1988-9.

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