Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 23 - Rev. Augustus Des Granges
Rev. Augustus Des Granges. — Mr. Des Granges “was descended from ancestors who were professors of the pure religion in France, and left their native country in order to preserve a good conscience.” He was a native of London where, and latterly at the Mission Seminary at Gosport, he was educated. In 1805 he went to Madras, which he left in order to found a Christian Mission at Vizagapatam along with Mr. Cran. The two missionaries translated the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, into the Talinga or Gentoo language. For eighteen months after the death of his colleague Mr. Des Granges conducted that work alone. The two reverend though youthful evangelists had similarities and diversities which combined to form an admirable missionary staff. Mr. Des Granges died of a violent fever, on 12th July 1810, aged thirty, leaving a widow and two children. (See a Funeral Sermon entitled. The Voice of God to the Churches — a sermon on the death of Rev. George Cran, Augustus Des Granges, and Jonathan Brain, missionaries in India from the Missionary Society, preached at Gosport, March 17, 1811, by David Bogue.)