The article on Hanningtons department store and the family who owns it (Argus September 29) mentions that the fourth son, James, became a church curate and is believed to have been martyred in Africa.

I am glad to be able to fill in a little more of the remarkable story of a rightly famous Sussex man. He was ordained into the Church of England ministry in 1874 and in 1882 went out as a missionary to East Africa, returning after a year because of ill health.

Leaving his wife and young family, he went on a second expedition, having been consecrated as first Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa. His initial work was to find a more satisfactory route into little known Uganda. However, he and his party were attacked and imprisoned and, on October 29, 1885, he and most of those with him were put to death.

Bishop Hannington Memorial church in Nevill Avenue is the only church in this country to be named after a rightly famous and godly man.

-Tony Baker, Vicar, Bishop Hannington Church, Nevill Avenue, Hove