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Bocking, Ronald

Date of Creation: 1942 to 2001
Extent: About 85 items and 91 photographs (colour slides)
CCCW Catalogue: preliminary list available
Keywords: Council for World Mission, Papua New Guinea, Rhodesia, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Swedish Covenant Church.

Revd. Ronald Bocking (1923-2012) read classics at King’s College Cambridge and, after interruption for wartime service, studied theology at New College, London, where he later occasionally lectured in historical theology and was a tutor 1954-63. As a minister in the Congregational and United Reformed Churches 1949-88 (spent mainly in the London and Bristol suburbs) he appears never to have served abroad but nevertheless had a lifetime interest in missionary work, perhaps encouraged during war service in the King’s Africa Rifles in Nyasaland [now Malawi] and Kenya.  He was secretary for the joint committee of Congregational and Presbyterian churches on overseas mission, in preparation for the creation of the United Reformed Church in 1972, and thereafter on the URC’s Council for World Mission, making several overseas for Council and consultative meetings, with a particular interest in southern Africa and the Far East. These are mainly his papers as a member of this Council. See also the papers related to the Congregational Council for World Mission.

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