Edwin Smith and Andrew Dale

Edwin William Smith was born on 7 September 1876 in Aliwal North, South Africa, the son of Methodist missionaries. A missionary in Basutoland and then, from 1902 to 1915, among the Baila-Batonga of Northern Rhodesia, he wrote a handbook of their language and translated the New Testament into Ila, then worked for the Bible Society, served as president of the Royal Anthropological Institute and edited a journal of African studies. He died in 1957. Andrew Murray Dale was a magistrate in the administration of the British South Africa Company.

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• TaleThe Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern RhodesiaEdwin Smith and Andrew Dale · 1920Literature