Henry ('Harry') Grattan Guinness
(1861-1915), PhysicianSitter in 1 portrait
Henry ('Harry') Grattan Guinness
by Olive Edis
platinum print, circa 1905-1907
NPG x15412
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Malcolm
18 August 2020, 12:23
There were number of people with the name Henry (Harry) Grattan Guinness. Your image is of Dr. Henry Grattan Guinness (1861–1915) who founded the Congo-Balolo Mission in 1888 and co-founded the Congo Reform Association in 1904. he was the son of another Henry (Harry) Grattan Guinness 1835- 1910.
Your Dr. Henry Grattan Guinness was a missionary doctor. He was most famous as after he had established the Congo-Balolo Mission in 1889, and was promised action by King Leopold II of Belgium later in 1895, to stop all the evil treatment in the Congo but nothing changed. In 1904 the RBMU published a booklet Congo Slavery by Henry Grattan Guinness, which helped force King Leopold to end his private rule in the Congo in 1908.
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