Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow

Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow OBE (13 June 1911 – 27 February 1978 Cambridge) was a British Christian missionary in East Africa.

He was the son of Canon Herbert Edgcumbe Hadow and Edith Rose Abell.

He was a missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in East Africa from 1939 to 1977.

During this time in South Western Tanzania he was a regular visitor to Uwemba Mission in the Livingstone Mountains.

In 1961 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire, and in 1972 he was made Canon of the Diocese of South West Tanganyika He was taken ill at Milo in 1977 and travelled back to Cambridge, where he died ten weeks later.

Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow OBE was an English Christian missionary to East Africa in the mid-twentieth century