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4 unusual facts about Anthony Norris Groves


Anthony Norris Groves

Rejoined by his sons and others from Baghdad, he established a missionary team in Madras supported largely through his dentistry, and later a farm and mission settlement in Chittoor.

In 1826, while continuing his dentistry in Exeter, he enrolled as an external student of theology at Trinity College, Dublin, with a view to ordination in the Church of England and appointment with the Church Missionary Society.

George Müller

On 7 October 1830, he married Mary Groves, the sister of Anthony Norris Groves.

John Kitto

One of his benefactors was the Exeter dentist Anthony Norris Groves, who in 1824 offered him employment as a dental assistant.



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