“THE COWBOY PARSON”

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 31, 31 October 1929, Page 11

“THE COWBOY PARSON”

END OF A ROVING LIFE FROM THE CIRCUS TO THE PULPIT SAILOR, SOLDIER, AND CATTLEMAN j (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright) (“Times" Cables.) (Rec. October 30, 10 p.m.) London, October 30. The death of tho Rev. Sir Genille Cave-Brown-Cave, at . Londesborough Rectory, ended a roving life, which was the most adventurous a missionary or Bush Brother would have envied. At thirteen years of age Cave-Brown-Cave joined Sanger’s circus, but was brought back and sent to a training ship. He was discharged for Insubordination at sixteen. After selling his clothes, his father refitted him, and he enlisted in the cavalry. He fought and got into endless scrapes in India. He purchased his discharge, and went tiger-shooting in India. He was a gold digger in Maysore, and then rejoined the army and went to South Africa. Afterwards he ran a ranch in Kansas, and shipped to England as a cattleman.

After participating in the SpanishAmerican war, and becoming quartermaster of a' Far Eastern liner, Cave-Brown-Oave reached China in the nick of time for the Boxer rebellion. The cessation of hostilities enabled him to visit Salt Lake City, whence he went to England. On his father’s death he succeeded to the baronetcy. He then did stage turns at a Hippodrome at a salary of £lOO a week. He next went to America, where the Salvation Army converted him. He then scrubbed floors and acted as janitor until he became a Congregatlonallst at New Jersey, then a Methodist at Virginia. He enlisted as a corporal In a Canadian regiment in the Great War, and when demobilised he studied at a theological college at’London. He was ordained in 1920, wrote his autobiography, and gained world-wide fame as “the cowboy parson.”