The Thin White Line

Abstract

On 3 December 1957, nearly one year after the independence of the Sudan, the Rt Rev. Bishop Llewellyn Henry Gwynne died in Epping, England. He was 94. As symbolic as the lowering of the flags at the Palace in Khartoum, the death of the beloved bishop marked the passing of an era in the history of Britain in the Sudan. Bishop Gwynne came to Khartoum in 1899, the year after the Battle of Omdurman as a missionary of the Church Missionary Society, and although consecrated the Suffragan Bishop of Khartoum in 1908, appointed Deputy Chaplain-General in France during the First World War, and thereafter Bishop in Egypt and the Sudan, he remained always at heart and in purpose a missionary. He was not only the symbol of the British Church in the Sudan, he was its inspiration, organiser and defender. By force of character and personality he brought the British community leadership in its faith and the Christianity of the Anglican Protestant Church to the Sudanese. To his flock, the British in the Sudan, he was ‘Uncle Greatheart’, the ‘Abuna’ (Ar., our father) and the dear old ‘Bish’. His life set the example of the moral and ethical standards of the British Administration. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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