Chauncy Maples was a British clergyman and Anglican missionary who served in East Africa. He received a Bachelors and M.D. from Oxford before sailing to Africa, where he compiled the Yao dictionary.
Maples sailed for Zanzibar in 1876 and was ordained a priest by Edward Steere at Kiungani. Maples spent most of his time serving as a missionary in the Masasi, Newala, and Likoma Island areas of Eastern Africa. In 1895, Maples became Bishop of Likoma. The people who Maples served in Likoma adored him, as shown in their writings about him.[1] Bishop Likoma and Reverand Percival Johnson “initiated the building of the St. Peter’s Cathedral on the Island [of Likoma].”[2]
Maples died in 1895, seven years after publishing his Yao dictionary.
[1] ‘Chauncy Maples, D.D., F.R.G.S., Pioneer Missionary in East Central Africa for Nineteen Years And Bishop of Lake Likoma, Nyasa, A.D. 1895’, By His Sister Ellen Maples, London, Bombay and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1897. Part IV. Notes and Memories by Workers for Africa and Africans, https://anglicanhistory.org/africa/umca/maples/04.html
[2] Mkandawire, Alfred. “THE PRESIDENT COMMISSIONS THE HISTORIC CHAUNCY MAPLES.” The Society of Malawi Journal 21, no. 1 (1968): 44–47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29778173.
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