COWBOY PARSONS LIFE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 808, 31 October 1929, Page 9

COWBOY PARSONS LIFE

AN ADVENTUROUS CAREER ENDED HUNTER AND SOLDIER Times Cable. LONDON, Wednesday. * The Times,” in referring to the leath of the Rev. Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave, the twelfth baronet, recror of Londesborough, which occurred >6B ter day, says he had led a roving life which the most adventurous missionary or bush-brother would have envied. At the age of 13 he joined “Lord” George Sanger’s circus, but was brought back and sent to a training ship. He was discharged for insubordination at the age of lt>. He then sold his clothes, but his father refitted him, and he enlisted in a cavalry regiment. He fought and ?ot into endless scrapes. When in India he purchased his discharge, and v enr. tiger-shooting in Burma, and was later a gold-digger in Mysore. Ho rejoined the army, and went to South Africa. After that he ran a ranch in Kansas, and shipped to Engbuul as a cattleman. After taking part in the Spanish-American War, and becoming a quartermaster on a Far 1- astern liner, Cave-Browne-Cave reached China in the nick of time for the Boxer rebellion. On the cessation of hostilities, he "as enabled to visit Salt Lake City, an( t then came to England on his father’s death, and succeeded to the baronetcy. stage turns at the London Hippodrome for £IOO a week. He then went to America, where !lle Salvation Army converted him. He scrubbed floors and acted as janitor wntil he became a Congregationalist in New Jersey, and then a Methodist in Virginia. He enlisted, and was a corporal in Canadian regiment in the Great War. When he was demobilised, he studied at the London College of Divinity, and was ordained in 1920. He wrote his autobiography, and gained world-wide fame as “the cowboy parson.’ 1