Norman Grubb

Norman Grubb
Missionary, writer and teacher
Born	(1895-08-02)2 August 1895 London
Died	15 December 1993(1993-12-15) (aged 98) Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

Norman Percy Grubb MC (2 August 1895 – 15 December 1993) was a British Christian missionary, writer, and theological teacher.

Grubb was born in Bournemouth, England, the son of an Anglican vicar. He was educated at Marlborough College, an English Public School before joining the British Army as a lieutenant in World War I. He received the Military Cross for meritorious action. After the war, in which he was wounded in one leg, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. Later he married Pauline Studd, the daughter of the famous British cricketer and missionary to Africa C.T. Studd. He left for the Belgian Congo with Pauline in 1920 to follow in the footsteps of his father-in-law, having not yet completed his final term at Cambridge.

Despite having a Christian upbringing it was only at the age of eighteen that Grubb seriously began to consider what it meant to be a Christian. It was a conversation with a family friend that challenged him to think more deeply about his faith, and from that point on he became committed to evangelistic work.

While recovering from his bullet wound in 1917 Grubb was handed a tract about the Heart of Africa Mission and the work of C.T. Studd in the Belgian Congo. After reading this tract he felt a calling to join Studd in his missionary activities.

Before setting out for Africa, however, Grubb studied for a while at Cambridge, where he had the vision for the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Evangelical Unions (IVF) (now the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship) whose primary goal was the sharing of the Christian message with other students.