Chauncy Maples

Chauncy Maples (1852 – 2 September 1895) was a British clergyman and Anglican missionary who became Bishop of Likoma, with a diocese in East Africa.

[1][2] Born at Bound's Green in 1852, he was the son of Frederick Maples, a solicitor, and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Chauncy.

[4] In early 1874, suffering some poor health, he dropped out of his course for a time, and read with William Wolfe Capes at Liphook.

[5] In a complex local situation, Maples supported Matola I of the Yao people, who was on good terms with the Anglican missionaries.

[3] On his return journey, his boat capsized on Lake Nyasa during a storm on 2 September; Maples and the lay missionary Joseph Williams were drowned.

[11] The 18 African men and boys aboard swam safely ashore, but Maples was pulled down by the weight of his cassock.

Maples (as archdeacon, on the left) with fellow missionary William Percival Johnson in 1895
SS Chauncy Maples , 1952 photograph