{{Short description|Salvation Army officer}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Commissioner | name = Henry Mapp | honorific_suffix = | image = File:Commissioner Henry Mapp.png | caption = | image_size = | office = 4th Chief of the Staff | 1blankname = General | 1namedata = Edward Higgins<br>Evangeline Booth | predecessor = Edward Higgins | successor = John McMillan | term_start = 5 March 1929 | term_end = 21 May 1937 | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Bombay British India | death_date = April 2, 1955 | death_place = Bromley, Kent | spouse = Bessie Harriman (married 1890) | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | education = }} {{The Salvation Army}}
'''Henry Mapp''' was a British minister and Salvation Army officer who served as the 4th Chief of the Staff of The Salvation Army.
==Career==
Mapp was commissioned by the Salvation Army in 1888 and served in British India and Ceylon before being transferred to London. He held administrative positions in Great Britain, Canada, South America, and Japan.<ref name="AU">{{cite web |title=SALVATION ARMY OFFICER DISMISSED |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47940941 |website=nla.gov.au |publisher=National Library of Australia |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref> General Bramwell Booth sent Mapp to Russia to establish a branch of the Salvation Army. However, communist revolutionaries forced the organisation to leave after the Bolshevik Revolution.<ref>{{cite journal |title=SALVATION ARMY DRIVEN FROM RUSSIA INTO SWEDEN |journal=The Rocky Mountain News |date=1 January 1919 |volume=60 |issue=1 |url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19190101-01.2.27&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------ |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref>
In 1929, while serving the organisation's international secretary, he participated in the first High Council of The Salvation Army, which successfully voted to remove the seriously ill General Bramwell Booth from office.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Docter |first1=Robert |title=The Salvation Army's first High Council—Courage or Coup? |url=https://caringmagazine.org/the-salvation-armys-first-high-council-courage-or-coup/ |website=caringmagazine.org |publisher=The Salvation Army |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref> Following Bramwell Booths removal from office, Mapp became Chief of the Staff of The Salvation Army under General Edward Higgins. Upon Higgins's retirement 1934, Mapp sought to succeed him as general.<ref>{{cite web |title=A program for the Dedication and Commissioning of Cadets by Commissioner Henry W. Mapp, International Secretary, supported by Commissioner Adam Gifford., and Col. William S. Barker, May 26, 1926. |url=https://sawest.pastperfectonline.com/archive/3E0C65DD-09F0-408D-AA8A-477927213767 |website=pastperfectonline.com |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref> However, Evangeline Booth was elected to the position by the High Council.<ref name="Dynasty Restored">{{cite web |title=Religion: Dynasty Restored |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,747916,00.html |publisher=TIME |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref> In 1937, Evangeline Booth removed Mapp as chief of staff after he became seriously ill and declared a leave of absence.<ref>{{cite web |title=COMMISSIONER MAPP ILL; Salvation Army's Chief of Staff in Doctor's Care in London |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/03/26/archives/commissioner-mapp-ill-salvation-armys-chief-of-staff-in-doctors.html |website=nytimes.com |publisher=New York Times |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref> She also accused him of various secret charges of immoral character which were never officially made public.<ref name="AU" /><ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite web |title=GEN. BOOTH OUSTS HER CHIEF OF STAFF; Commissioner Mapp Is Found Guilty of Secret Charges by Salvation Army Court HE CONDEMNS TRIBUNAL Lawyers Serve Papers Indicatitig Legal Action in London for Defamation of Character Civil Court Action Seen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/22/archives/gen-booth-ousts-her-chief-of-staff-commissioner-mapp-is-found.html |website=nytimes.com |publisher=New York Times |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref>
Mapp, however demanded, under Army rules, a hearing before a panel. The five-officer panel unanimously supported Booth's decision to remove Mapp as chief of staff and found him guilty of the secret charges.<ref name="nytimes.com" /> Rumors spread that Mapp was involved in an extramarital affair, to which he announced he would sue for defamation of character.<ref name="Mapp Out">{{cite web |title=Religion: Mapp Out |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,847896,00.html |publisher=TIME |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref> Mapp claimed that he was dismissed as chief of staff because of his request to the general to retire on account of ill health.<ref>{{cite web |title=SALVATION ARMY GENERAL AND CHIEF OF STAFF Dismissed Commissioner On Contents Of Letter |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92483265/8833779 |website=nla.gov.au |publisher=National Library of Australia |access-date=12 June 2023}}</ref>
==Later life==
Little is known about the Mapps after they left Salvation Army officership, but it likely they lived in Bromley, Kent, where both of their deaths are recorded. At least one daughter became an officer, reaching the rank of Mrs Lieutenant-Commissioner, and retiring in Canada.
==Death== Henry Mapp was promoted to Glory in 1955 from Bromley, Kent. His wife Bessie re-deceased him in 1950, also in Bromley.
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