Gladwyn Murray Childs (29 December 1896 – July 1975) was an American minister, missionary and anthropologist.
He received his bachelor's degree from Pomona College, a BD and MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York,[1] where he knew William Sloane Coffin.
[2] Childs spoke both Umbundu and Portuguese at the school, which was run by the Church of Christ.
Childs also worked with his uncle, Merlin Ennis, a researcher of folk tales, on Umbundu folktales;[3] Ennis went on to publish Umbundu: folk tales from Angola in 1962.
[4][5] He married Margaret (born Marguerite) Pfaffli (5 November 1902 – January 1986) in her home town of Lausanne, Switzerland on 14 February 1925.