“COWBOY PARSON ”

Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1929, Page 8

“COWBOY PARSON ”

CHEQUERED CAREER ENDS'

LIFE packed with adventure. LONDON, October 30. The death of the Rev. Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave at Londesborough Rectory at the age of GO ended a roving life which the most adventurous missionary or bush-brother would have envied. At the age of thirteen, he joined Sanger’s circus, but was brought back and sent on a training ship. lie was discharged for insubordination, and at the age of sixteen, after selling his clothes, his father re-fitted him and lie enlisted in the cavalry. He bought and got into endless scrapes in India. He then purchased bis discharge, and went tiger shooting in India; then he was a gold-digger; then be rejoined the army and went to South Africa, and afterwards he ran a ranch in Kansas and shipped to England as a cattleman. After participating in the Spanish-

American war and becoming quartermaster on a fnr-astern liner, Sir Genille reached Chinn in the nick oi time for the Boxer Rebellion. A cessation of hostilities enabled him to visit Salt Lake City, from where he went to England. On his father's death he succeeded to a baronetcy. He then did stage turns at the .Hippodrome at a salary of £IOO a week. He next went to America, where the Salvation Army converted him. He then scrubbed floors and acted as a janitor until he became a Congregationalist at New Jersey; then a Methodist at Virginia. He enlisted as a corporal in a Canadian Regiment in the Great War, and when demobilised he studied at the Theological College at London. He was ordained in 1920, and wrote his autobiography, gaining world-wide fame as the “Cowboy Parson.”