| LC control no. | no 97059267 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Reeves, R. Ambrose (Richard Ambrose), 1899-1980 |
| Variant(s) | Reeves, Richard Ambrose, 1899-1980 Reeves, Ambrose, 1899-1980 |
| Located | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Birth date | 1899-12-06 |
| Death date | 1980-12-23 |
| Place of birth | Norwich (England) |
| Place of death | Shoreham-by-Sea (England) |
| Affiliation | Church of England Student Christian Movement (Great Britain) Anti-Apartheid Movement |
| Profession or occupation | Church of England--Bishops Clergy |
| Found in | A quiet room, 1928: t.p. (Rev. R. Ambrose Reeves, B.A.) OCLC, Oct. 2, 1997 (hdg.: Reeves, Richard Ambrose, Bp., 1899- ;Reeves, R. Ambrose (Richard Ambrose), Bp., 1899- ; usage: R. Ambrose Reeves; Richard Ambrose Reeves; Ambrose Reeves; the Bishop of Johannesburg) Author anniversaries Web site, June 20, 2001 (Richard Ambrose Reeves; Dec. 6, 1899-Dec. 23, 1980) Encyclopaedia Britannica, via WWW, April 9, 2020 (Ambrose Reeves, British Bishop; Richard Ambrose Reeves; born December 6, 1899 in Norwich, England; died December 23, 1980 in Shoreham-by-Sea, East Sussex; Anglican prelate who was bishop of Johannesburg, South Africa (1949-1961) and a strong opponent of apartheid; Reeves was active in the Student Christian Movement (SCM) while an undergraduate at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and he also attended the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield; his work as rector of bombed-out St. Nicholas Church in Liverpool (1942-1949) marked him as an Anglo-Catholic who could cooperate with other religious traditions and thereby rebuild a Christian community; as bishop of Johannesburg he strove to build up parishes and missions and help Africans in an area of industrial change; he was so vigorously outspoken against apartheid and critical of the South African government, especially after the Sharpeville massacre of March 1960, that he was deported from the country and resigned his see; he was general secretary of the SCM (1962-1965) and was named president of Britain's Anti-Apartheid Movement in 1970) |
| Associated language | eng |
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