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List of Protestant missionaries in China

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List of Protestant missionaries in China

This is a list of notable Protestant missionaries in China by agency. Beginning with the arrival of Robert Morrison in 1807 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries and their families, lived and worked in China to spread Christianity, establish schools, and work as medical missionaries.

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China Inland Mission

Charles Herbert Hess:Winifred May Jennings Hess:

The Hundred were deployed by the China Inland Mission in response to a call for workers issued in 1886. All of the 100 candidates had been sent to China by 1887. This was further catapulted the mission into the public spotlight and dramatically increased the size of the entire Protestant missionary enterprise in China in the 1800s. Also noteworthy was the fact that over half were single women.

  1. John Brock
  2. William Russell
  3. John Darroch 竇樂安 (1865-1941) Shanxi, Shanghai
  4. Erik Folke
  5. F. Dymond
  6. S. Pollard
  7. Gertrude Muir
  8. Priscilla Livingstone Stewart (Priscilla Studd)
  9. C. Thomson
  10. K. McWatters
  11. E. J. Burroughes
  12. F. M. Britton
  13. E. M. Johnson
  14. A. McQuillan
  15. Caroline Gates
  16. J. A. Miller
  17. M. MacKee
  18. H. Parker
  19. E. Webber
  20. C. Groves
  21. Knight
  22. L. K. Ellis
  23. Alexander Armstrong
  24. Mrs. Armstrong
  25. M. E. Scott
  26. A. A. Miles
  27. H. Judd
  28. E. Culverwell
  29. L. M. Forth
  30. Stewartson
  31. W. J. Lewis
  32. A. Hoddle
  33. J. O. Curnow
  34. Arthur Henry Faers (1863-1951) Suifu, Chefoo, Weihsien
  35. I. F. Drysdale
  36. D. J. Mills
  37. James Adam
  38. Archibald Gracie
  39. Ed Tomkinson
  40. Mrs. Tomkinson
  41. E. Maud Holme
  42. H. R. Waldie
  43. A. K. Ferriman
  44. S. E. Bastone
  45. A. K. Hook
  46. Harriet Cutt
  47. Emma Fryer
  48. H. N. MacGregor
  49. John A. Stooke
  50. Mrs. Stooke
  51. Archibald Orr-Ewing
  52. Dagald Lawson
  53. A. H. Huntley
  54. Florence Ellis
  55. Clara Ellis
  56. K. Williamson
  57. M. Palmer
  58. E. Hainge
  59. M. Mitchell
  60. E. Marchbank
  61. I. W. Ramsey
  62. Gertrude Ord
  63. Benjamin Ririe
  64. F. A. Redfern
  65. R. Wellwood
  66. Alexander Reid Saunders
  67. Alfred Bland
  68. Albert Lutley
  69. Joshua Vale
  70. Charles S. I’Anson
  71. B. Curtis Waters
  72. May Graham Brown
  73. F. M. Williams
  74. J. Arthur
  75. M. J. Eland
  76. E. Kentfield
  77. L. Chilton
  78. A. Barrett
  79. William Grahame Peat
  80. W. M. Belcher
  81. F. E. Lund
  82. A. H. Bridge
  83. Ebenezer Murray
  84. George A. Cox
  85. Campbell
  86. E. Hanbury
  87. John T. Reid
  88. Mrs. Reid
  89. Anna Crewdson
  90. Robina Crewdson
  91. N. R. Rogers
  92. Theresa E. Dawson (d. 1888)
  93. J. Sutherland
  94. Clara Baker
  95. James Simpson
  96. Mrs. Simpson
  97. W. E. Shearer
  98. Thomas D. Begg
  99. Thomas Eyres
  100. Ole S. Nastegaard

Protestant Episcopal Church Mission

A list of missionaries of the Episcopal Church (United States) a member Province of the worldwide Anglican Communion that served in China from 1835. In 1912 Episcopal Church missionary activities in China were reorganized with Anglican mission initiatives of the Church of England and other Anglican provinces under the banner of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui.

Protestant missionaries affiliated with other agencies

William Taylor Dixon

(Independent)

Bertha Pinkham Dixon

(Independent)

References

List of Protestant missionaries in China Wikipedia