Thomas James Comber
Thomas James Comber (* 1852 in London , † 1887 at sea) was a British missionary and Africa explorer .
Comber came as a messenger for the Baptist Missionary Society in 1875 to Victoria Station in Cameroon , from where he spent three years exploring the Cameroon Delta and the Kamerungebirge with the missionary Grenfell . Then both devoted themselves to exploring the Congo . They first went to San Salvador, then in 1883 to Stanley Pool , in 1884 to the Bangala area and finally up the Kasai to the mouth of the Kuango .
Thomas James Comber died at sea in 1887.
Works
Comber's publications can mostly be found in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (1879, 1881, 1884, 1885).
literature
- JB Myers, Thomas J. Comber: missionary pioneer to the Congo (1888)
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| SURNAME | Comber, Thomas James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British missionary and explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1887 |
| Place of death | at sea |