Robert Spence Hynde

Original a lay missionary for the Church of Scotland, he left his mission work and later ran plantations for coffee and tobacco.

He was the son of Thomas Hynde of Edinburgh, a clothier of 6 Calton Street in 1867, and then in business at 13 Union Place, with a residence Annfield House on Hope Park Square.

From the early 1890s onwards, Hynde gathered support from other Scottish planters, and intrigued in the Church of Scotland against Scott with the help of James Rankin DD, minister of Muthill.

Hynde and Stark were caught up in a violent episode in 1895, reported on by David Scott at Damosi, and Harry Johnston, administrator of the Nyasaland Districts Protectorate he had set up in 1891.

It was carried out by followers of Kawinga, a Yao chief with a base on an inaccessible hill, who started off by molesting Malemia's people, taking some prisoner.

On 27 January a boma was partially completed by Malemia's men with an NCO of the Royal Engineers named Fletcher, as a defensive work.

A serious attack by Kawinga's forces came on 7 February, backed by other local chiefs, targeting the mission, the boma and Hynde and Stark's residence.

[25] In his introduction to a 1985 reprint of the Planter, McCracken mentions criticism of racism in its pages, commenting on "offensive passages, revealing only of the coarsely prejudiced minds of those who conceived them".

[17] Hynde wrote to The Scotsman on the matter under the name "The Planter", and with Dr James Rankin attended the 1897 meeting in Edinburgh of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Church of Scotland that nominated the Commission.

[27] It followed the death in 1896 of John Buchanan, who with his brothers David and Robert owned 167,823 acres (67,916 ha) of land, concentrated near Zomba, Blantyre and Cholo in Thyolo District.