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For convenience, all countries in Africa should be included in this category. This includes all the countries (not territories or former countries) that can also be found in the subcategories.
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This category has the following 68 subcategories, out of 68 total.
► Countries in Africa by region (8 C)
► Lists of countries in Africa (33 C, 10 P)
► Economies of Africa by country (58 C)
► Fauna of Africa by country (38 C)
► Geography of Africa by country (61 C, 1 P)
► History of Africa by country (62 C, 10 P)
► Sport in Africa by country (59 C)
► Transport in Africa by country (65 C)
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► Fictional African countries (1 C, 16 P)
► Former countries in Africa (44 C, 424 P)
A
► Algeria (14 C, 6 P)
► Angola (14 C, 4 P)
B
► Benin (14 C, 4 P)
► Botswana (14 C, 3 P)
► Burkina Faso (14 C, 8 P)
► Burundi (14 C, 4 P)
C
► Cameroon (14 C, 9 P)
► Cape Verde (15 C, 4 P)
► Central African Republic (14 C, 8 P)
► Chad (14 C, 8 P)
► Comoros (14 C, 6 P)
► Democratic Republic of the Congo (15 C, 10 P)
► Republic of the Congo (14 C, 6 P)
D
► Djibouti (14 C, 5 P)
E
► Egypt (15 C, 8 P)
► Equatorial Guinea (14 C, 4 P)
► Eritrea (14 C, 8 P)
► Ethiopia (16 C, 16 P)
G
► Gabon (14 C, 6 P)
► The Gambia (14 C, 6 P)
► Ghana (15 C, 14 P)
► Guinea (14 C, 4 P)
► Guinea-Bissau (13 C, 4 P)
I
► Ivory Coast (14 C, 5 P)
K
► Kenya (14 C, 11 P)
L
► Lesotho (14 C, 5 P)
► Liberia (14 C, 6 P)
► Libya (14 C, 10 P)
M
► Madagascar (14 C, 5 P)
► Malawi (14 C, 6 P)
► Mali (14 C, 7 P)
► Mauritania (14 C, 5 P)
► Mauritius (15 C, 10 P)
► Morocco (14 C, 12 P)
► Mozambique (14 C, 7 P)
N
► Namibia (15 C, 11 P)
► Niger (14 C, 5 P)
► Nigeria (15 C, 37 P)
R
► Rwanda (14 C, 13 P)
S
► Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (7 C, 20 P)
► Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (12 C, 6 P)
► São Tomé and Príncipe (14 C, 4 P)
► Senegal (14 C, 7 P)
► Seychelles (14 C, 6 P)
► Sierra Leone (15 C, 7 P)
► Somalia (15 C, 7 P, 3 F)
► Somaliland (12 C, 16 P)
► South Africa (15 C, 11 P)
► South Sudan (14 C, 43 P)
► Sudan (14 C, 16 P)
► Swaziland (14 C, 5 P)
T
► Tanzania (15 C, 10 P)
► Togo (14 C, 5 P)
► Tunisia (14 C, 6 P)
U
► Uganda (13 C, 10 P)
W
► Western Sahara (14 C, 9 P)
Z
► Zambia (14 C, 10 P)
► Zimbabwe (15 C, 9 P)
Pages in category "Countries in Africa"
The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
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Algeria
Angola
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Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
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Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo
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Djibouti
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Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
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Ethiopia
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The Gambia
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Ivory Coast
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Malawi
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Mozambique
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Namibia
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Réunion
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Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
São Tomé and Príncipe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Somaliland
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Swaziland
T
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
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Uganda
Z
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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Henry Francis Lyte
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Rev. Henry Francis Lyte
Henry Francis Lyte (1 June 1793 – 20 November 1847) was an Anglican divine, hymnodist, and poet.
Contents
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1 Biography
1.1 Youth and education
1.2 Religious conversion
1.3 Early career and marriage
1.4 Brixham
1.5 Character and personality
1.6 Decline and death
2 Works
3 Significance
4 References
5 External links
Biography[edit]
Youth and education[edit]
Henry Francis Lyte was the second son of Thomas and Anna Maria (née Oliver) Lyte.[1] He was born at Ednam, near Kelso, Scotland.[2] Lyte's father was described as a "ne-er do-well ... more interested in fishing and shooting than in facing up to his family responsibilities".[3] He deserted the family shortly after making arrangements for his two oldest sons to attend Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh; and Anna moved to London, where both she and her youngest son died.
The headmaster at Portora, Dr. Robert Burrowes, recognised Henry Lyte's ability, paid the boy’s fees, and "welcomed him into his own family during the holidays." Lyte was effectively an adopted son.[4]
Religious conversion[edit]
After studying at Trinity College, Dublin and with very limited training for the ministry, Lyte took Anglican holy orders in 1815, and for some time he held a curacy in Taghmon near Wexford. Lyte's "sense of vocation was vague at this early stage. Perhaps he felt an indefinable desire to do something good in life."[5] However, in about 1816, Lyte experienced an evangelical conversion. In attendance on a dying priest, the latter convinced Lyte that both had earlier been mistaken in not having taken the Epistles of St. Paul "in their plain and literal sense." Lyte began to study the Bible "and preach in another manner," following the example of four or five local clergymen whom he had previously laughed at and considered "enthusiastic rhapsodists."[6]
Early career and marriage[edit]
In 1817 Lyte became a curate in Marazion, Cornwall, and there met and married Anne Maxwell, daughter of a well-known Scottish-Irish family. She was 31, seven years older than her husband and a "keen Methodist."[7] Furthermore, she "could not match her husband's good looks and personal charm." Nevertheless, the marriage was happy and successful. Ann eventually made Lyte's situation more comfortable by contributing her family fortune, and she was an excellent manager of the house and finances.[8] They had two daughters and three sons, one of whom was the chemist and photographer Farnham Maxwell-Lyte. A grandson was the well known historian Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte.[9]
From 1820 to 1822 the Lytes lived in Sway, Hampshire. Itself only five miles from the sea, the house in Sway was the only one the couple shared during their marriage that was neither on a river or by the sea. At Sway Lyte lost a month-old daughter and wrote his first book, later published as Tales In Verse Illustrative of the Several Petitions of the Lord's Prayer (1826).[10] In 1822 the Lytes moved to Dittisham, Devon, on the River Dart and then, after Lyte had regained some measure of health, to the small parish of Charleton.[11]
Brixham[edit]
About April 1824, Lyte left Charleton for Lower Brixham, a Devon fishing village.[12] Almost immediately, Lyte joined the schools committee, and two months later he became its chairman. Also in 1824, Lyte established the first Sunday school in the Torbay area and created a Sailors' Sunday School. Although religious instruction was given there, the primary object of both was educating children and seamen for whom other schooling was virtually impossible. Each year Lyte organised an Annual Treat for the 800-1000 Sunday school children, which included a short religious service followed by tea and sports in the field.[13]
Shortly after Lyte's arrival in Brixham, the minister attracted such large crowds that the church had to be enlarged—the resulting structure later described by his grandson as "a hideous barn-like building."[14] Lyte added to his clerical income by taking resident pupils into his home, including the blind brother of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, later British prime minister.[15] About 1830, Lyte made excavations at nearby Ash Hole Cavern, where he discovered pottery and human remains.[16][17]
Character and personality[edit]
An older Henry Francis Lyte.
Lyte was a tall and "unusually handsome" man, "slightly eccentric but of great personal charm, a man noted for his wit and human understanding, a born poet and an able scholar." He was an expert flute player and according to his great-grandson always had his flute with him.[18] Lyte spoke Latin, Greek, and French; enjoyed discussing literature; and was knowledgeable about wild flowers.[19] At Berry Head House, a former military hospital at Berry Head, Lyte built a magnificent library [1]—largely of theology and old English poetry—described in his obituary as "one of the most extensive and valuable in the West of England."[20]
Nevertheless, Lyte was also able to identify with his parish of fishermen, visiting them at their homes and on board their ships in harbour, supplying every vessel with a Bible, and compiling songs and a manual of devotions for use at sea.[21] In theology Lyte was a conservative evangelical who believed that man's nature was totally corrupt. Lyte frequently rose at 6 AM and prayed for two or more hours before breakfast.[22]
In politics, Lyte was a Conservative who feared revolt among the irreligious poor.[23] He publicly opposed Catholic Emancipation by speaking against it in several Devon towns, stating that he preferred Catholics to be "emancipated from priests and from the power of the factious and turbulent demagogues of Ireland."[24] Lyte, a friend of Samuel Wilberforce, also opposed slavery, organising an 1833 petition to Parliament requesting it be abolished in Great Britain.[25]
Decline and death[edit]
In poor health throughout his life, Lyte suffered various respiratory illnesses and often visited continental Europe in attempts to check their progress. In 1835 Lyte sought appointment as the vicar of Crediton but was rejected because of his increasingly debilitating asthma and bronchitis.[26] In 1839, when only 46, Lyte wrote a poem entitled "Declining Days."[27] Lyte also grew discouraged when numbers of his congregation (including in 1846, nearly his entire choir) left him for Dissenter congregations, especially the Plymouth Brethren, after Lyte expressed High Church sympathies and leaned towards the Oxford Movement.[28]
By the 1840s, Lyte was spending much of his time in the warmer climates of France and Italy, making written suggestions about the conduct of his family's financial affairs after his death. When his daughter was married to his senior curate, Lyte did not perform the ceremony.[29] Lyte complained of weakness and incessant coughing spasms, and he mentions medical treatments of blistering, bleeding, calomel, tartar emetic, and "large doses" of Prussic acid.[30] Yet his friends found him buoyant, cheerful, and keenly interested in affairs of the Europe around him.[31] Lyte spent the summer of 1847 at Berry Head then, after one final sermon to his congregation on the subject of the Holy Communion, he left again for Italy. He died on 20 November 1847 at Nice, at that time in the Kingdom of Sardinia, where he was buried.[32]
Berry Head Hotel, Lyte's residence
Works[edit]
Lyte's first composition was Tales in Verse illustrative of Several of the Petitions in the Lord's Prayer (1826), written at Lymington and commended by John Wilson in the Noctes Ambrosianae. Lyte next published Poems, chiefly Religious (1833), and in 1834, a small collection of psalms and hymns entitled The Spirit of the Psalms. After his death, a volume of Remains (1850) with a memoir was issued, and the poems contained in this, with those in Poems, chiefly Religious, were afterward published in one volume (1868). Three of Lyte's best-known hymns are paraphrases of psalms, published in The Spirit of the Psalms: "Praise, my soul, the King of heaven" (Psalm 103), "God of Mercy, God of Grace" (Psalm 67), and "Pleasant are thy courts above" (Psalm 84).[33]
Lyte's best known hymns are:
Abide with me! fast falls the eventide
Jesus, I my cross have taken
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven
Pleasant are Thy courts above.
Of these hymns, "Abide With Me" is the best known.[34] According to the traditional story given in the Remains, Lyte wrote it a few hours after conducting the final service at his church, which was probably 5 September 1847.[35] More likely the hymn was actually written in July or August of that year.[36] Lyte himself created for the hymn what his biographer has disparaged as "a dull tune." When Hymns Ancient and Modern was published in 1861, the editor, William H. Monk—whose three-year-old daughter had just died—composed his own tune, "Eventide," for Lyte's poem.[37] The hymn became a favourite of George V and George VI and was sung at the former's funeral. The hymn also inspired Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener and General Charles "Chinese" Gordon, and it was said to have been on the lips of Edith Cavell as she faced a German firing squad.[38] "Abide with Me" has been sung at the FA Cup finals since 1927 when the association secretary substituted the hymn for the playing of "Alexander's Ragtime Band."[39] In Rugby League, the hymn has been sung before the Challenge Cup final since 1929, the first year the match was staged at Wembley Stadium.[40] The hymn is the also the Portora Royal School victory song and is sung at its remembrance service.
Significance[edit]
Leon Litvack has written in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography that although Lyte's "poetic energies were directed at scripturally and evangelically minded audiences, his lyric gift was universally appreciated. The example of ‘Abide with me’ is instructive: intensely personal and contemplative, yet nationally popular—even being sung (always, after its publication in 1861, to W. H. Monk's tune, ‘Eventide’) on secular occasions such as at football matches, and especially, since 1927, at the English cup final." [26] The 20th-century hymnologist Erik Routley referred to the "much-loved H. R. Lyte" who "though scriptural and evangelical in his emphases, always writes good literature and is rarely deserted by an exquisite lyric gift. Perhaps the centrally 'romantic' hymn of all hymns is the intensely personal yet, as it has proved, wholly universal hymn, 'Abide with me.'"[41]
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References[edit]
Jump up ^ Henry James Garland, Henry Francis Lyte and the Story of Abide With Me (Manchester, England: Torch Publishing Company, 1957).
Jump up ^ Faith Cook, Our Hymn-writers and Their Hymns (Darlington, England: Evangelical Press, 2005). The Lyte family originated from Somerset in South West England and was one of considerable prominence as early as the reign of Edward I. Its seat was at Lytes Cary Manor, but the house passed out of the family in 1748. Thomas Lyte, an army captain, does not seem to have formally married Anna Maria Oliver, although it has been argued that since they were accepted as man and wife in Scotland where they lived, they were legally married according to Scottish law. B. G. Skinner, Henry Francis Lyte: Brixham's Poet and Priest (University of Exeter, 1974), 1-2, 32-34.
Jump up ^ "Henry Francis Lyte and the Story of Abide With Me" (Manchester, England: Torch Publishing Company, 1957).
Jump up ^ David Robertson, "Henry Francis Lyte"[permanent dead link]
Jump up ^ Skinner, 17.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 18. "The poor man died, I rejoice to say, happy under the belief that though he had deeply erred, there was One whose death and sufferings would atone for his delinquencies, and be accepted for all that he had incurred. I was greatly affected by the whole matter."
Jump up ^ On Sunday mornings in Brixham, Lyte would drive his wife to the Methodist society before proceeding to his own church. However, she would attend his church in the evening. Skinner, 61.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 27. Lyte and Maxwell were married on 21 January 1818.
Jump up ^ The Lyte family (accessed 23 December 2009). The children were Henry William Maxwell Lyte (1818–1856), Anna Maria Lyte (1821), who lived only a month; Anna Maria Maxwell Lyte Hogg (1822–1889); John Walker Maxwell Lyte (1825–1848), and Farnham Maxwell Lyte (1828–1896). Although John Lyte died of scarlet fever at 23, his son, Henry Maxwell Lyte (1848–1940), became a noteworthy historian.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 39-44.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 39-46. While in Charleton, Lyte preached a sermon on 19 October 1823, "Without God in the World," that attracted the attention of George Canning, later briefly prime minister. In the sermon, Lyte compared the fates of men who lived for God or for the world in the face of approaching death. Skinner says the sermon demonstrates " a prominent 'hell-fire' note and was true to the tradition of Wesley and the Evangelical Revival" but with "a peculiar beauty about both the language and the content." (45-46)
Jump up ^ Skinner, 46. By 1785, 75 trawlers were operating from Brixham; by 1914, there were 350 trawlers. (50)
Jump up ^ Skinner, 58-59.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 60.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 96.
Jump up ^ Pengelly, W. (1870). "The Ash Hole and Bench Bone-Caverns, at Brixham, south Devon". Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 4 (1): 73–80.
Jump up ^ Blewitt, Octavian (1832). The panorama of Torquay, a descriptive and historical sketch of the district comprised between the Dart and Teign. pp. 146–8. ISBN 9781173575281. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 55.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 75.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 92-93. When the library was sold after his death, the catalog ran to 296 pages. In the twentieth century, Lyte's home became the Berry Head Hotel.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 56.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 55, 74.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 37.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 79.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 83-84. Slavery was abolished that year in the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.
^ Jump up to: a b Litvack, Leon. "Lyte, Henry Francis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17302. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.).
Jump up ^ Skinner, 103. In the poem he wished to write "some sparklet of the soul, that still might live/When I was passed to clay," a wish fulfilled in "Abide with Me."
Jump up ^ Skinner, 105, 111. One leading member of the choir thought that some words of "Abide with Me"—"When other helpers fail and comforts flee"—applied to these choir members. Another commentator thought they referred to "12 devout young men" whom Lyte had trained to hold services in the surrounding community, all of whom defected from Lyte's church to dissenting congregations.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 118-19.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 121-22.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 116, 120, 123.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 131, 147-48. "Referring to our Lord's atoning sacrifice as being a 'pillow of consolation' to a dying soul, Lyte added, 'O brethren, I can speak feelingly, experimentally on this latter point; and I stand up here among you seasonably today, as alive form the dead.'"(131)
Jump up ^ David Robertson, "Henry Francis Lyte"[permanent dead link].
Jump up ^ Ian Bradley considered the song such an archetypal Victorian piece that he called a scholarly study, Abide With Me: The World of Victorian Hymns (London: SCM Press, 1997).
Jump up ^ Skinner, 129-30.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 129-41. Skinner devotes a chapter to theories about its composition.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 136-37. Monk was also Director of Music at King's College London.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 140.
Jump up ^ Skinner, 140; FA Cup website. "When the singing of the hymn commenced, King George V...stood and bared his head. So the tradition continued."
Jump up ^ Geoffrey Moorhouse, A People's Game (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995)
Jump up ^ Erik Routley, A Panorama of Christian Hymnody (Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1979), 45.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lyte, Henry Francis". Encyclopædia Britannica. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 184.
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