Henry Haversham Godwin Austen

LieutenantColonel Henry Haversham GodwinAusten FRS FZS FRGS MBOU , known until 1854 as Henry Haversham Austen, was an English topographer, geologist, naturalist and surveyor.

GodwinAustens conversion and possibly his shrine therefore predates the earliest formal Buddhist missions to Britain namely those of the Japanesesponsored Buddhist Propagation Society, led by Irish born Captain Charles J. W. Pfoundes in 1889, and that of English convert Charles Henry Alan Bennett a.k.a. Ananda Metteyya in 1908. The Buddhist Society of Great Britain amp Ireland was formed in 1907.

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