List of Protestant missionaries in China
Beginning in 1807, with the arrival of Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries, often along with married partners and dependent children, lived and worked in China to spread the Christian Gospel, establish schools and work as medical missionaries.
The following is a list by agency of such missionaries who were of particular historical note.
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Missionary organizations
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Name | Chinese Name | Born | Died | Arrived in China | Province(s) Stationed |
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William Scott Ament | 梅å明 | 14 September 1851 | 8 January 1909 | 1877 | Zhili, Beijing |
Caleb Cook Baldwin | 1820 | 1911 | 1848 | Fujian | |
Dyer Ball | June 3, 1796 | 1866 | 1841 | Macao, Hong Kong, Canton | |
Harlan Page Beach | 畢海瀾 | 1854 | March 4, 1933 | 1883 | |
Willard Livingstone Beard | 裨益知 | 1865 | 1947 | 1894 | Fujian |
Edward Bliss | December 10, 1865 | January 22, 1960 | 1893 | Fujian | |
Henry Blodget (missionary) | èˆ‡ç™½æ¼¢ç† | 1854 | Shanghai, Tianjin, Beijing | ||
Elijah Coleman Bridgman | 裨治文 | April 22, 1801 | November 2, 1861 | 1830 | Guangdong; Shanghai |
James Granger Bridgman | December, 1820 | December 6, 1850 | 1844 | Shanghai | |
Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman | 1805 | 1871 | 1844 | Guangdong; Shanghai; Beijing | |
Samuel William Bonney | March 8, 1815 | July 27, 1864 | 1845 | Hong Kong; Guangdong | |
Seneca Cummings | 簡明 | 1817 | 1856 | 1848 | Fujian |
Justus Doolittle | 盧公明 | 1824 | 1880 | Fujian | |
Charles Hartwell | å¤å¯Ÿç† | 1825 | 1905 | 1853 | Fujian |
Stephen Johnson (missionary) | Zhejiang | ||||
Walter Henry Judd | September 25, 1898 | February 13, 1994 | 1925 | Fujian | |
Daniel Jerome MacGowan | 1815 | 1893 | Zhejiang | ||
Luella Miner | |||||
Peter Parker | 伯駕 | 1804 | 1888 | 1834 | Guangdong |
Päivö Parviainen | June 19, 1912 | Living | 1946-1972 | Hunan province, later Taiwan (Finnish Evangelical Lutheran) | |
Lyman Birt Peet | Fujian | ||||
Horace Tracy Pitkin | |||||
Frank J. Rawlinson | 樂éˆç”Ÿ | ||||
William L. Richards | Fujian | ||||
Arthur Henderson Smith | 明æ©æº¥ | July 18, 1845 | August 31, 1932 | 1872 | |
Charles A. Stanley | Tianjin | ||||
Edwin Stevens (missionary) | Fujian | ||||
Elwood Gardner Tewksbury | 1865 | 1945 | 1890 | Beijing Tongzhou | |
Ira Tracy | Singapore | ||||
Samuel Wells Williams | è¡›ä¸‰ç• | 22 September 1812 | 1884 | 1833 | Guangdong |
American Presbyterian Mission
Name | Chinese Name | Born | Died | Arrived in China | Province(s) Stationed |
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Pearl S. Buck | è³½çç | 26 June 1892 | 6 March 1973 | late 1892 | Jiangsu, Nanjing |
Calvin Norris Caldwell[1] | 1888 | ||||
Eleanor Chestnut[2] | 1905 | Lien Chow, Canton, China | |||
Richard Cole (missionary)[3] | 1844 | Shanghai | |||
Ira Miller Condit[2] | April 24,[4] 1915 | 1860 | San Francisco, California, USA Chinese in US | ||
Hunter Corbett[2][3][4] | éƒé¡¯å¾· | December 8, 1835 | January 7, 1920 | 1864 | Yantai, Shandong |
J. F. Corsette | 1870 | Tongzhou | |||
Michael Simpson Culbertson[3] | January 18, 1819 | August 25, 1862 | 1844 | Shanghai, Zhejiang | |
John Marshall Willoughby Farnham[2][3] | 法ç´å§† | 1850 | Shanghai | ||
Courtenay Hughes Fenn[2][4] | 芳泰瑞 | April 11, 1866 | 1927 | 1893 | Beijing |
George F. Fitch (Mary)[2][4] | 1870 | Shanghai, Suzhou | |||
John Booth French[3] | 1846 | Guangdong | |||
Mary H. Fulton[2] | 富马利 | 1854 | 1927 | 1884 | Guangzhou |
William Gamble[3] | 姜别利 | 1858 | Zhejiang, Shanghai | ||
Samuel R. Gayley[3] | 蓋利 | 1858 | Shandong | ||
James Robert Graham III | |||||
Andrew Patton Happer[3] | 哈巴安德 | 1844 | Guangdong | ||
Milo Arthur Van Norman Hogan | 20 April 1891 | 4 August 1980 | 1919 | Lianzhou | |
Elias B. Inslee[3] | 1857 | Shanghai | |||
Asher Raymond Kepler[4] | 1901 | Siangtan, Hunan,China | |||
John G. Kerr[2][3] | 嘉約翰 | 1824 | 1901 | 1854 | Guangdong |
Augustus Ward Loomis[3] | 1844 | ||||
Reuben Lowrie[3] | 1854 | Shanghai | |||
Walter Macon Lowrie[3] | å©ç†è¯ | 1842 | |||
Samuel Newell D. Martin[3] | 1850 | Zhejiang | |||
William Alexander Parsons Martin[3] | ä¸éŸ™è‰¯ | April 10, 1827 | 1916 | 1850 | Zhejiang, Shanghai, Beijing |
Calvin Wilson Mateer[2][3] | 狄考文 | 1836 | 1908 | 1863/4 | Shandong |
Henry M. McCandliss[2][4] | 1885 | Hainan | |||
Divie Bethune McCartee[2] | éº¥å˜‰ç· | 1820 | July 17, 1900 | 1844 | Zhejiang |
Paul Whiting McClintock[2][4] | January 12, 1869 | March 18, 1947 | 1892 | Hainan | |
Rebecca Ewing McClintock[2][4] | September 20, 1869 | March 7, 1968 | 1892 | Hainan | |
Margaret Ray Melrose[2][4] | 1890 | Hainan | |||
Charles Rogers Mills | 梅ç†å£« | Shandong | |||
Wilson Plumer Mills | |||||
Mary Margaret Moninger[4] | 1915 | Hainan | |||
John Livingstone Nevius | 倪ç¶æ€ | 1829 | 1893 | 1853 | Zhejiang, Shandong, Korea |
Harriet Newell Noyes[3][4] | é‚£å¤ç† | 1867/8 | Guangdong | ||
John Parker (physician) | |||||
Francis Wilson Price | 畢範宇 | ||||
Charles Finney Preston[3] | 1854 | Guangdong | |||
John Winn Quarterman[3] | 1846 | Zhejiang | |||
Richard Quarterman | Zhejiang | ||||
Henry Van Vleck Rankin[3] | 1848 | Zhejiang | |||
Anna Cunningham Safford | |||||
James Metcalf Shaw | 1849 | 1876 | 1874 | Penglai, Shandong | |
Robert Elliott Speer | å²ç•¢çˆ¾ | 1867 | 1947 | ||
William Speer[3] | 1846 | ||||
Absalom Sydenstricker | 19 August 1852 | 31 August 1931 | 1881 | Jiangsu | |
Matilda S. Thurston | |||||
R. Q. Way[3] | 1844 | ||||
J. K. Wight[3] | 1848 | Shanghai | |||
John Elias Williams[2][4] | æ–‡æ‡·æ© | 1871 | March 24, 1927 | 1899 | Nanjing |
American Southern Methodist Mission
Name | Chinese Name | Born | Died | Arrived in China | Province(s) Stationed |
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Fred P. Manget | 1880 | 1979 | 1909 | Huzhou | |
John Abner Snell | Soo E Sang | 1880 | 1936 | 1907 | Suzhou |
American Southern Baptist Mission
Name | Chinese Name | Born | Died | Arrived in China | Province(s) Stationed |
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A. B. Cabaniss | Shanghai | ||||
Tarleton Perry Crawford | 高第丕 | May 8, 1821 | 1902 | 1852 | Shandong |
Thomas T. Devan | Hong Kong | ||||
James T. Dickenson | |||||
Charles Washington Gaillard | Macau, Guangdong | ||||
Rosewell Hobart Graves | |||||
J. L. Holmes | 花è˜èŠ· | Jiangsu, Shandong | |||
Sophie Stephens Lanneau | August 19, 1881 | June 4, 1963 | |||
Lottie Moon | 慕拉第 | December 12, 1840 | December 24, 1912 | 1873 | Shandong |
Cicero Washington Pruitt | è’²å…¶ç¶ | January 31, 1857 | December 27, 1946 | 1882 | Huangxian |
Anna Seward Pruitt | 蒲安娜 | May 16, 1862 | June 20, 1948 | 1885? | Huangxian |
Ida Pruitt | 蒲愛德 | 1884 | Huangxian | ||
Alanson Reed | |||||
John Griffith Schilling | Hong Kong | ||||
Henrietta Hall Shuck | å”ä½•é¡¯ç† | October 28, 1817 | November 27, 1844 | September 1836 | |
Jehu Lewis Shuck | Hong Kong | ||||
Matthew Tyson Yates | æ™ç‘ªå¤ª | ||||
China Inland Mission
Name | Chinese Name | Born | Died | Arrived in China | Province(s) Stationed |
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David R. Adam | c. 1864 | 1915 | 1887 | ||
W.H. Aldis | 1871 | 1948 | 1897 | ||
David Howard Adeney | è‰¾å¾·ç† | 1911 | 1994 | 1934 | China, Singapore |
Paul Ernest Adolph | 1901 | 1929 | |||
Gordon Hudson Aldis | 1905 | 1988 | 1931 | ||
Benjamin Bagnall | è²æ ¼ | c. 1844 | 1900 | 1873 | |
Frederick W. Baller | 鮑康寧 | November 21, 1852 | August 12, 1922 | November 5, 1873 | Anhui, Jiangsu |
Mary (Bowyer) Baller | 包瑪莉 | c. 1843 | 1909 | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang |
Stephen Paul Barchet | 巴克敵 | 1843 | October 5, 1909 | July 24, 1865 | Zhejiang |
Susan Barnes (missionary) | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang | |||
David Barratt | c. 1872 | 1900 | 1897 | ||
Howard G. Barrie | c. 1871 | 1903 | |||
Harold D. Hayward | |||||
Mary Elizabeth Bausum | October 15, 1849 | August 3, 1926 | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang | |
Ivor Cuthbert Beauchamp | ç« æ„›ç”« | 1900 | 1971 | 1929 | Sichuan |
Montagu Harry Proctor Beauchamp | ç« å¿…æˆ | 1860 | 1939 | 1885 | Baoning, Sichuan |
Emily Blatchley | 巴愛梅 | c. 1842 | July 26, 1874 | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang, Jiangsu |
Rudolf Alfred Bosshardt | 薄復禮 | January 1, 1897 | 1993 | 1922 | Guizhou |
E. A. Barclay Botham | c. 1861 | 1934 | 1884 | ||
John Brock (missionary) | åšæ˜¥è‡£ | c. 1866 | 1942 | 1887 | |
Albert Hudson Broomhall | 海國祿 | August 31, 1862 | August 19, 1934 | 1884 | Taiyuan, Shanxi; Hebei |
Alfred James Broomhall | æµ·æ’åš | December 6, 1911 | May 11, 1994 | 1938 | Yunnan, Thailand, Philippines |
Theodora Janet (Churchill) Broomhall | June 13, 1913 | November 15, 2000 | Yunnan, Thailand, Philippines | ||
Amelia Gertrude Broomhall (Hoste) | 海寬愛 | May 18, 1861 | April 12, 1944 | 1884 | Taiyuan, Shanxi |
Edith Elizabeth Broomhall (Ritchie) | 海懿德 | October 23, 1867 | 1973 | 1889 | Shanxi |
Edith Marjory Broomhall | 海寬厚 | September 7, 1895 | June 3, 1984 | 1924 | |
Marshall Broomhall | æµ·æ©æ³¢ | July 17, 1866 | October 24, 1937 | 1890 | Anhui, Shanxi |
Mrs. F. W. Broumton | |||||
James F. Broumton | 包è˜é “ | c. 1850 | 1910 | 1875 | |
Elizabeth Burton (missionary) | c. 1872 | 1900 | 1898 | ||
Alice Mildred Cable | 蓋群英 | February 21, 1878 | April 30, 1952 | 1902 | Shanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang |
James Cameron | è³ˆç¾Žä» | c. 1845 | 1892 | 1875 | |
John Edwin Cardwell | 高å¸æµ· | 1830 | 1918 | 1868 | Shanghai |
William Wharton Cassels | 蓋士利 | 1858 | 1925 | 1885 | Baoning, Shanxi |
Grace Ciggie Stott | 曹雅直夫人 | January 24, 1922 | 1870 | Zhejiang | |
George W. Clarke (missionary) | c. 1849 | 1919 | 1875 | ||
Mrs. (Rossier) Clarke | |||||
Samuel R. Clarke (missionary) | 記載了 | c. 1853 | 1946 | 1878 | Yunnan, Guizhou |
Mrs. (Fausett) Clarke | |||||
T. A. P. Clinton | 寧鮑秀ç | c. 1873 | 1909 | 1894 | |
William Cooper (missionary) | 顧æ£é“ | 1858 | 1900 | 1881 | Anking, Anhui |
Florence Corderoy (Broomhall) | æµ·æ©æ³¢å¤ªå¤ª | 1871 | 1957 | 1894 | |
John Joseph Coulthard | éƒè±é” | 1859 | 1956 | 1879 | Zhenjiang |
George A. Cox | 計安全 | c. 1862 | 1939 | 1888 | |
Miss Crickmay | |||||
George Crombie | 甘比治 | 1865 | Zhejiang | ||
Louise Desgraz | 伙樂義 | November 28, 1907 | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang | |
Henry Dick (missionary) | 1883 | ||||
Adam C. Dorward | 1888 | 1878 | |||
A. W. Douthwaite | 稻惟德 | ||||
Frederick Charles Henry Dreyer | ä¸è‰¯æ‰ | 1872 | 1953 | 1895 | |
George Duncan (missionary) | ç«¥è·Ÿç¦ | February 12, 1873 | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang | |
George F. Easton | 義世敦 | 1853 | 1938 | 1875 | |
James Huston Edgar | 葉長清 | 1872 | 1936 | ||
W. L. Elliston | |||||
Emil Fischbacher | 巴富羲醫生 | 1903 | 1933 | 1932 | Xinjiang |
Charles Thomas Fishe | 1928 | November 10, 1869 | |||
Edward Fishe | 1877 | March 3, 1868 | |||
William S. Fleming (missionary) | 明鑑光 | 1867 | 1898 | 4. Nov. 1898 | Guizhou |
James O. Fraser | å¯Œèƒ½ä» | 1886 | September 25, 1938 | 1910 | Yunnan |
Evangeline Frances "Eva" French | 馮貴ç | 1869 | 8 July 1960 | 1893 | Shanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang |
Francesca Law French | 馮貴石 | 12 December 1871 | August 2, 1960 | 1893 | Gansu, Xinjiang |
Archibald Edward Glover | è“‹è½çªª | 1861 | 1954 | 1897 | Shanxi |
Robert Hall Glover | 1871 | 1947 | 1894 | ||
Harry G. Gould | 高立德 | ||||
Jessie Gregg | 賈貴安 | ||||
Gershom Whitfield Guinness | é‡‘ç´”ä» | 1869 | 1927 | 1897 | |
Henry Guinness | 金?? | ||||
Mary Geraldine Guinness | 金樂婷 | December 25, 1865 | June 6, 1949 | 1888 | Henan |
Pauline Hamilton | |||||
Brook Hannah | September 28, 1874 | January 21, 1961 | Sichuan | ||
George Kaufelt Harris | 1887 | 1962 | Gansu | ||
Adolf Hermann | 1880 | August, 1967 | October 23, 1905 | Hebei | |
Celia Horne | |||||
Dixon Edward Hoste | 何斯德 | July 23, 1861 | May 11, 1946 | 1885 | Shanxi; Henan others |
Frank Houghton | è¯ç¦è˜ | 1894 | 1972 | December 19, 1920 | Sichuan |
Henry Hunt (missionary) | 而洪亨利 | ||||
Mrs. Hunt | |||||
George Hunter | 胡進潔 | 1861 | 1946 | 1889 | Ningxia; Xinjiang |
Josiah Alexander Jackson | è”¡æ–‡æ‰ | 1909 | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang | |
Anna Sofie Jakobsen | November 8, 1860 | 1913 | 1885 | Shanxi | |
Francis James (missionary) | 秀耀春 | 1851 | June 20, 1900 | 1876 | |
Charles Henry Judd | ç¥åæš | c. 1842 | October 23, 1919 | March 3, 1868 | |
James Herbert Kane | 1910 | 1988 | 1935 | Anhui | |
Duncan Kay | c. 1863 | 1900 | 1884 | ||
Frank A. Keller | è‘›è”è¯ | c. 1863 | 1945 | 1897 | |
Miss C. Kerr | |||||
Miss Kidd | c | ||||
George King (missionary) | é‡‘è¼”ä» | c. 1857 | 1875 | Shaanxi | |
Mrs. (Snow) King | |||||
Margaret King | é‡‘å¯¶æ© | ||||
John Kuhn (missionary) | 楊志英 | Yunnan | |||
Isobel Miller Kuhn | æ¥Šå®“è²´éˆ | 1901 | 1957 | Yunnan | |
Leslie Theodore Lyall | è³´æ©èž | 1905 | 1996 | 1929 | Shandong; Shanxi |
Percy C. Mather | 馬爾昌 | 1884 | 1933 | 1910 | Anhui; Xinjiang |
Robert Arthur Mathews | 馬良箴 | 1912 | 1978 | 1938 | |
Robert Henry Mathews | 1877 | 1970 | 1908 | Henan, Anhui, Sichuan, Shanghai | |
Wilda Mathews | |||||
John McCarthy (missionary) | éº¥åŠ å¼Ÿ | c. 1840 | June 21, 1911 | February 23, 1867 | Yangzhou, Zhejiang |
Jessie McDonald | 美德純 | 1888 | 1980 | 1913 | |
Stewart McKee | 紀長生 | c. 1863 | 1900 | 1884 | |
Elizabeth (Rose) Meadows | November 3, 1890 | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang | ||
James Joseph Meadows | 宓é“生 | September 1, 1835 | December 12, 1914 | May 24, 1862 | Zhejiang |
George Edgar Metcalf | March 3, 1879 | January 15, 1956 | October 23, 1906 | Yunnan | |
Elizabeth Mary (Donnelly) Metcalf | January 19, 1891 | August 25, 1966 | November 28, 1917 | Yunnan | |
Alice Amelia Miles (Broomhall) | 海國祿太太 | February 22, 1864 | May 20, 1953 | Shanxi | |
Mariamne Murray | 1852 | 1931 | 1884 | ||
George Nicoll | æŽæ ¼çˆ¾ | 1875 | |||
Mrs. Nicoll | |||||
Archibald Orr-Ewing (missionary) | 榮晃熙 | 1857 | 1930 | 1886 | Pingyao, Shanxi |
F. S. Parker | |||||
George Parker (missionary) | å·´æ ¼é“ | 1931 | 1876 | ||
Mrs. Parker | |||||
Frank E. Parry | å·´è²å±± | ||||
Edward Pearse | è²è²½å£« | ||||
Arthur Twistle Polhill-Turner | æœæ˜Žå¾· | 1862 | 1935 | 1885 | |
Cecil Henry Polhill-Turner | å¯¶è€€åº | 1860 | 1938 | 1885 | |
Sam Pollard | æŸæ ¼ç† | April 20, 1864 | September 16, 1915 | 1885 | Yunnan |
Gladstone Porteous | å¼ å°”æ˜Œ | 1874 | 1944 | 1904 | Yunnan |
Henry Reid (missionary) | æŽæ„›æ© | 1867 | Jiangsu | ||
Arthur TF Reynolds |
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Gilbert Ritchie | 芮明哲 | 1872 | 1957 | 1894 | |
Hattie Rice | è³´æµ·è’‚ | 1858 | July 13, 1900 | 1893 | Shanxi |
Harry French Ridley | June, 1862 | 1944 | 13 November 1890 | Qinghai, Xinjiang | |
Mary (Bell) Rudland | October 23, 1874 | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang, Jiangsu | ||
William David Rudland | è·¯æƒ ç† | February, 1839 | January 10, 1921 | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang, Jiangsu |
Alexander R. Saunders | ç´¢è¡Œä» | c. 1862 | 1934 | 1887 | |
Charles Schmidt (missionary) | 1867 | Jiangsu | |||
R. Harold A. Schofield | 賜æ–å¾· | 1851 | 1883 | 1880 | Yantai, Shandong |
Otto F. Schoerner | 石愛樂 | 1906 | 2008 | 1931 | Xinjiang, Gansu |
Stanley Peregrine Smith | å¸ç±³å¾· | 1861 | 1931 | 1885 | Shanxi |
Henry Soltau | ç´¢æ¨‚é“ | 1875 | |||
Elizabeth Alden Scott "Betty" Stam | å²æ–‡æ˜Ž | 22 February 1906 | December 8, 1934 | 1931 | Shandong |
John Stam | 師é”能 | January 18, 1907 | December 8, 1934 | 1932 | Shandong |
Florence Mary Hannah (Tapscott) Steven | March 26, 1866 | May 11, 1936 | April 1, 1886 | Jiangxi; Shanghai | |
Frederick Arthur Steven | June 13, 1858 | March 6, 1931 | April 17, 1883 | Yunnan; Jiangxi; Shanghai | |
John Whiteford Stevenson | 范明德 | 1844 | 1918 | February 6, 1866 | Zhejiang; Shanghai |
George Stott | 曹雅直 | April 21, 1889 | October 1865 | Zhejiang | |
Charles Studd | æ–½é”å¾· | 1860 | 1931 | 1885 | Shanxi |
Priscilla Stewart (Priscilla Studd) | æ–½é”德夫人 | 1929 | 1887 | Shanxi | |
Frederick Howard Taylor | 戴å˜ç¾© | November 25, 1862 | August 15, 1946 | September 30, 1866 | Anking, Anhui |
Henry Taylor (missionary) | 戴亨利 | 1873 | Henan | ||
Herbert Hudson Taylor | 戴å˜ä» | April 3, 1861 | June 6, 1950 | September 30, 1866 | |
James Hudson Taylor | 戴德生 | May 21, 1832 | June 3, 1905 | March 1, 1854 | Zhejiang, many others |
Jennie Faulding Taylor | ç¦ç妮 | October 6, 1843 | July 31, 1904 | September 30, 1866 | Zhejiang, many others |
Maria Hudson Taylor | 瑪利亞 | February 3, 1867 | September 28, 1897 | 1884 | Zhenjiang |
Maria Jane Taylor | 瑪利亞 | January 16, 1837 | July 23, 1870 | 1852 | Zhejiang, Jiangsu |
Torrance Thomas | 1871 | 1959 | 1895 | Sichuan | |
Peter Torjesen | è‘‰æ°¸é’ | 1939 | 1919 | Shanxi | |
(Miss) E. E. Turner | |||||
Joshua J. Turner | 德治安 | 1876 | |||
Joan Wales | 1916 | October 1945 | Sichuan | ||
Robert Walker | c. 1892 | 1975 | 1919 | Honan | |
James Williamson (CIM missionary) | 衛養生 | c. 1838 | 1896 | September 30, 1866 | Fenghua, Zhejiang |
Miss E. Wilson | |||||
Florence Young | October 10, 1856 | May 28, 1940 | 1891 | ||

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.
- John Brock (missionary)
- William Russell
- John Darroch 竇樂安 (1865-1941) Shanxi, Shanghai
- Erik Folke
- F. Dymond
- S. Pollard
- Gertrude Muir
- Priscilla Livingstone Stewart (Priscilla Studd)
- C. Thomson
- K. McWatters
- E. J. Burroughes
- F. M. Britton
- E. M. Johnson
- A. McQuillan
- Caroline Gates
- J. A. Miller
- M. MacKee
- H. Parker
- E. Webber
- C. Groves
- Knight
- L. K. Ellis
- Alexander Armstrong
- Mrs. Armstrong
- M. E. Scott
- A. A. Miles
- H. Judd
- E. Culverwell
- L. M. Forth
- Stewartson
- W. J. Lewis
- A. Hoddle
- J. O. Curnow
- A. H. Faers
- I. F. Drysdale
- D. J. Mills
- James Adam
- Archibald Gracie
- Ed Tomkinson
- Mrs. Tomkinson
- E. Maud Holme
- H. R. Waldie
- A. K. Ferriman
- S. E. Bastone
- A. K. Hook
- Harriet Cutt
- Emma Fryer
- H. N. MacGregor
- John A. Stooke
- Mrs. Stooke
- Archibald Orr Ewing (missionary)
- Dagald Lawson
- A. H. Huntley
- Florence Ellis
- Clara Ellis
- K. Williamson
- M. Palmer
- E. Hainge
- M. Mitchell
- E. Marchbank
- I. W. Ramsey
- Gertrude Ord
- Benjamin Ririe
- F. A. Redfern
- R. Wellwood
- Alexander Reid Saunders
- Alfred Bland
- Albert Lutley
- Joshua Vale
- Charles S. I’Anson
- B. Curtis Waters
- May Graham Brown
- F. M. Williams
- J. Arthur
- M. J. Eland
- E. Kentfield
- L. Chilton
- A. Barrett
- William Grahame Peat
- W. M. Belcher
- F. E. Lund
- A. H. Bridge
- Ebenezer Murray
- George A. Cox
- Campbell
- E. Hanbury
- John T. Reid
- Mrs. Reid
- Anna Crewdson
- Robina Crewdson
- N. R. Rogers
- Theresa E. Dawson (died in 1888)
- J. Sutherland
- Clara Baker
- James Simpson
- Mrs. Simpson
- W. E. Shearer
- Thomas D. Begg
- Thomas Eyres
- Ole S. Nastegaard
Church Missionary Society
Name James | Chinese Name | Born 1840 Dublin[5] | Died | Arrived in China About 1869 | Province(s) Stationed |
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J. Bates | |||||
John Shaw Burdon | 包爾騰 | 1826 | 1907 | Shanghai | |
Robert Henry Cobbold | 柯æ’義 | Zhejiang | |||
William H. Collins | Shanghai, Beijing | ||||
Arthur William Cribb | 金亞德 | Fujian | |||
John Fryer | å‚…è˜é›… | 1839 | 1928 | Beijing, Shanghai | |
Frederick Foster Gough | 高富,岳牧師 | Zhejiang | |||
John Hobson | Shanghai | ||||
David Duncan Main | 1856 | 1934 | 1881 | ||
Edward Candish Millard | 1868 | 1900 | 1891 | Foo-Chow (Fuzhou) | |
Edward Theophilus Russell Moncrieff | Hong Kong | ||||
Arthur Evans Moule | æ…•é›…å¾· | 1836 | 1918 | 1861 | Zhejiang, Shanghai |
George Evans Moule | 慕稼谷 | 1828 | 1912 | 1858 | Zhejiang |
David Macdonald Paton | |||||
William Armstrong Russell | ç¥¿è³œæ‚¦ç† | 1821 | 1879 | Zhejiang | |
Douglas Noel Sargent | 1907 | 1979 | |||
George Smith | 施美夫 | June 19, 1815 | December 14, 1871 | September 25, 1844 | Hong Kong |
Jarvis Downman Valentine | 1864 | Zhejiang | |||
William Welton | 温敦 | Fujian | |||
English Presbyterian Mission
Name | Chinese Name | Born | Died | Arrived in China | Province(s) Stationed |
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Thomas Barclay | 巴克禮 | November 21, 1849 | October 5, 1935 | 1875 | Taiwan |
William Chalmers Burns | è³“æƒ å»‰ | April 1, 1815 | April 4, 1868 | 1847 | Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong |
John Carnegie | |||||
Carstairs Douglas | æœå˜‰å¾· | December 27, 1830 | July 26, 1877 | 1855 | Fujian |
James Laidlaw Maxwell | é¦¬é›…å„ | March 18, 1836 | March 1921 | 1864 | Taiwan |
James Laidlaw Maxwell, Junior | 馬雅å„二世 | ||||
John Preston Maxwell | 馬士敦 | ||||
Campbell Naismith Moody | |||||
George Smith | |||||
James H. Young | |||||
London Missionary Society
Name | Chinese Name | Born | Died | Arrived in China | Province(s) Stationed |
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Marjory Causer M.Sc. | January 27, 1910 | May 13, 2010 | 1938 | Chunking, Nanking & Szechwan | |
James Anderson | December 27, 1865 – May 5, 1870 | Canton | |||
Thomas Beighton | |||||
Evan Bryant | |||||
Hedley Bunton | 潘 é “ 牧 師 | January 18, 1906 | October 23, 1997 | 1933 | Guangzhou, Hong Kong |
J. R. Carmichael | 1862 | Guangdong, Shandong | |||
John Chalmers | |||||
John Fullerton Cleland | |||||
Thomas Cochrane, 1866-1953 | |||||
David Collie | |||||
Hugh Cowie - Amoy District of china - his two daughters Annie S M Clowie and Helena Margaret Cowie where born there | |||||
Evan Davies | 1805 | June 18, 1864 | Penang, Singapore | ||
Robert Dawson | |||||
John Dudgeon | 1837 | 1901 | December 1863 | Beijing | |
Maria Tarn Dyer | ca. 1808 | October 21, 1846 | Penang, Malacca, Singapore | ||
Samuel Dyer | å°ç´„爾 | January 20, 1804 | October 24, 1843 | 1843 | Penang, Malacca, Singapore |
Joseph Edkins | 艾約瑟 | December 19, 1823 | April 23, 1905 | July 22, 1848 | Shanghai, Beijing |
John Evans | |||||
William Fairbrother | |||||
Robert Fleming | |||||
Arnold Foster | |||||
Samuel Kidd | |||||
James Gentle | Jiangsu | ||||
William Gillespie | |||||
Thomas Gillfillan | |||||
James Gilmour | å£é›…å„ | June 12, 1843 | May 21, 1891 | 1870 | Mongolia |
Samuel Lavington Hart | |||||
James Henderson | |||||
James Humphreys | |||||
George H. Huttman | |||||
Henri Julius Hinschberg | |||||
Benjamin Hobson | åˆä¿¡ | ||||
Thomas Hall Hudson | èƒ¡å¾·é‚ | ||||
James Hyslop | |||||
John Ince | August 20, 1795 | April 24, 1825 | Penang, Malacca | ||
Griffith John | æ¥Šæ ¼éž | December 14, 1831 | July 25, 1912 | September, 1855 | Hupeh, Hunan, Szechwan, Hubei |
Battison Kay | |||||
William Lea (missionary) | |||||
Jonathan Lees | 1862 | Tianjin | |||
James Legge | ç†é›…å„ | December 20, 1815 | November 29, 1897 | ||
Mary Isabella Legge | |||||
Eric Liddell | æŽæ„›éŠ³ | January 16, 1902 | February 21, 1945 | Born in Tianjin; arrived as missionary in 1925 | Tianjin, Hebei |
William Lockhart | é›’éæž— | ||||
John Macgowan | 麦高温 | 23 Jul 1835 | 17 Mar 1922 | 1860 | Xiamen |
John Kenneth Mackenzie | |||||
Walter Henry Medhurst | éº¥éƒ½æ€ | 29 April 1796 | 24 January 1857 | ||
Rachel Cowie Milne | |||||
William Charles Milne | |||||
William Milne | ç±³æ† | 1785 | 1822 | 1813 | Macau, Guangdong |
Samuel Milton | |||||
Robert Morrison | é¦¬ç¦®éœ | January 5, 1782 | August 1, 1834 | 4 September 1807 | Guangdong, Macau |
John Robert Morrison | 摩利臣 | 1814 | October, 1843 | (born in Macau) | Guangdong, Hong Kong |
Mary Morton] | Guangdong, Macau | ||||
William Muirhead | æ…•ç¶å»‰ | ||||
Maria Newell Gützlaff | |||||
George Sydney Owen | |||||
James Sadler | |||||
John Slater | |||||
John Smith | |||||
Benjamin Southwell | |||||
Alexander Stronach | |||||
John Stronach | 施敦力 | ||||
Robert Jermain Thomas | 로버트 í† ë¨¸ìŠ¤ | (Korea) | |||
Jacob Tomlin | |||||
Claudius Henry Thomsen | 湯生 | ||||
F. S. Turner | |||||
Bernard Upward | |||||
Alexander Williamson | 韋廉臣 | December 5, 1829 | September 1890 | ||
James Williamson | |||||
Robert Wilson | |||||
Samuel Wolfe | |||||
Dr Richard Wolfendale LRCP&S Edin | June 25, 1866 Tutbury Staffs England | March 29, 1921 Luchow China | November 1896 | Chungking (Chongqing) and Luchow (Luzhow) | |
Alexander Wylie | å‰çƒˆäºžåŠ› | April 6, 1815 | February 10, 1887 | ||
William Young | |||||
Mission Covenant Church of Sweden
Name | Uyghur or Chinese Name | Born | Died | Arrived-Departed | Province(s) Stationed |
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Gustaf Ahlbert | 1884 | 1943 | Xinjiang | ||
Albert Andersson | Xinjiang | ||||
Gerda Gemina Bernhardina Andersson | Xinjiang | ||||
Oscar Fabian Konstantin Andersson | Xinjiang | ||||
Gustaf Adolf Arell | 26 May 1886 | 1976 | Xinjiang | ||
Johanna Katarina Arell (née Larsson) | 3 January 1890 | 1984 | Xinjiang | ||
Johannes Aveteranian | 30 June 1861 | 11 December 1919 | 1892–1897 | Xinjiang | |
Magnus Bäcklund | 12 December 1866 | 26 June 1903 | Xinjiang | ||
Maja Bergquist | 1897 | 1987 | 1928– | Xinjiang | |
Adolf Bohlin | 9 March 1873 | Xinjiang | |||
Vendla Gustafsson | Xinjiang | ||||
David Walter Gustavsson | Xinjiang | ||||
Kristian Hermanrud | 1929–1933 | Xinjiang | |||
Greta Hermanrud | 1931–1933 | Xinjiang | |||
Adelia Hermansson | 1924–1930 | Xinjiang | |||
Gunnar Hermansson | 1924–1930 | Xinjiang | |||
Oskar Hermansson | 1889 | 1951 | Xinjiang | ||
Lars Erik Högberg | 1858 | 1924 | Xinjiang | ||
Sigrid Högberg | 1868 | Xinjiang | |||
Nils Fredrik Höijer | 1857 | 20 November 1925 | 1892 | Xinjiang | |
Elisabeth Höök | 1931– | Xinjiang | |||
Ivar Höök | 1931– | Xinjiang | |||
Ester Johansson | 1929– | Xinjiang | |||
Ingrid Kangstrom | 1929– | Xinjiang | |||
Petrus Kangstrom | 1929– | Xinjiang | |||
Frida Lundell | 6 March 1899 | 29 August 1934 | 1925–1934 | Xinjiang | |
Stina MÃ¥rtensson | Xinjiang | ||||
Josef Mässrur | Xinjiang | ||||
Anna Mässrur (née Nyström) | Xinjiang | ||||
Anna Maria Mobeck | Xinjiang | ||||
Sigfrid Persson-Moen | 1897 | 1989 | 1925– | Xinjiang | |
Ester Moen (née Aronsson) | 1925– | Xinjiang | |||
Hilda Lovisa Nordquist | 6 April 1881 | Xinjiang | |||
John Norstedt | 1932 | 1924–1932 | Xinjiang | ||
Helena Nyström | Xinjiang | ||||
Rikard Nyström | 1884 | 1943 | Xinjiang | ||
Lisa Persson (née Gahns) | 1936 | 1929–1936 | Xinjiang | ||
Carl Persson | Xinjiang | ||||
Gösta Raquette | 1871 | 1945 | Xinjiang | ||
Hanna Raquette | Xinjiang | ||||
Elin Roberntz née Jansson | 1929– | Xinjiang | |||
Georg Roberntz | Xinjiang | ||||
Stina Rydberg | Xinjiang | ||||
Ellen Soderberg | 1924– | Xinjiang | |||
Elin Karolina Svensson | Xinjiang | ||||
Naemi Terning (née Ryden) | 1928– | Xinjiang | |||
John Törnquist | Xinjiang | ||||
Rachel O. Wingate | 1924–1928 | Xinjiang | |||
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.
Name | Chinese Name | Born | Died | Arrived in China | Province(s) Stationed |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
William Jones Boone | æ–‡æƒ å»‰ | 1 July 1811 | 17 July 1864 | 1842 | Shanghai |
William Jones Boone, Jr. | 17 May 1846 | 5 October 1891 | Shanghai | ||
Lydia Mary Fay | 1804 | 5 October 1878 | 1851 | Shanghai | |
Francis Hanson | 27 March 1807 | 21 October 1873 | 1835 | Canton, Batavia | |
James Addison Ingle | 殷徳生 | 11 March 1867 | 7 December 1903 | Hankow | |
Emma G. Jones | 1879 | 1845 | Shanghai | ||
Cleveland Keith | July 1862 | 1851 | |||
John Liggins | 11 May 1829 | 8 January 1912 | 1856 | Shanghai, Nagasaki | |
Henry Lockwood (missionary) | November 1883 | 1835 | Canton, Batavia | ||
Mary J. Morse | March 1879 | 1845 | Shanghai | ||
Robert Nelson | 30 November 1819 | 15 July 1886 | 1851 | Shanghai | |
Henry M. Parker | 1831 | October 1861 | 1859 | ||
John Tevis Points | 1830 | 1860 | 1851 | Shanghai | |
Francis Lister Hawks Pott | åœèˆ«æ¿Ÿ | 22 February 1864 | 7 March 1947 | Shanghai | |
Logan Hebert Roots | 27 July 1870 | 23 September 1945 | 1896 | Wuchang, Hankow | |
Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky | 施約瑟 | 6 May 1831 | 15 October 1906 | 1859 | Shanghai |
Edward W. Syle | 17 February 1817 | 1845 | Shanghai, Yokohama | ||
Channing Moore Williams | 17 July 1829 | 2 December 1910 | 1856 | Shanghai, Japan | |
English Baptist Missionary Society
Name | Dates in China | Province(s) Stationed |
---|---|---|
Alfred G. Jones | 1877-1905 | Shandong |
Arthur Gostick Shorrock[6] BA | 1890–1925 | Sianfu, Principal of Bible School |
Maud Mary Shorrock (née Doulton) BA | 1900–1925 | Sianfu, Principal of Girls' School |
Moir Black Duncan[7] MA, LLD | 1892–1906 | Sianfu, Shansi |
Jessie Chalmers Duncan (née Lister) | 1892–1906 | Sianfu, Shansi |
Evan Morgan MA LLD | 1896– | Sianfu, Shansi, Shanghai |
F Madeley MA | 1889– | Sianfu, Shantung |
Miss Jennie Beckingsale BA | 1898–1913 | Sianfu |
JAC Smith MB ChB | 1899–1905 | Sianfu |
C Cheeseman | 1903–1904 | Sianfu |
Miss Evelyn Minnie Russell | 1903– | Sianfu |
JC Keyte MA | 1904– | Sianfu, Shantung, Peking |
Dr Herbert Stanley Jenkins[8] MD FRCS | 1904–1913 | Sianfu |
John Bell ATS | 1905– | San Yuan |
Miss KM Franklin | 1905– | Sianfu, Women’s work |
Andrew Young[7] LRCP&S | 1905–1923 | San Yuan |
J Watson | 1906– | Sianfu, Principal of Secondary School |
Ernest F Borst-Smith | 1906– | Sianfu, Shantung & Shanghai |
George A Charter LRCP&S | 1908–1919 | Sianfu |
Mrs Helen Mackay-Scollay (née Watt) | 1908–1917;1918–1925 | Sianfu |
Dr Thomas Scollay | 1913–1917; died Ontario, Canada 1918 | Sianfu |
William Mudd | 1909– | Fu Yin Tsun |
E J Ellison BSc | 1909–1912 | Sianfu, Shantung, Kuling |
Dr Cecil F Robertson FRCS | 1909–1913 | Sianfu |
W Comerford | 1909– | Sianfu, Shantung |
H H Stanley | 1910–1912 | Sianfu |
Donald Smith[7] MA | 1910–1912 | Sianfu, Yenanfu |
Other Protestant mission agencies
(Independent)
Bertha Pinkham Dixon
(Independent)
See also
- List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953)
- List of Roman Catholic missionaries in China
- List of Christian Missionaries
- Timeline of Christian missions
- Chefoo School
- Lammermuir Party
- Thomas Richardson Colledge
- Grace Dyer Taylor
- The Murder of John and Betty Stam
- Kenneth Scott Latourette
- George S. Benson
References
- ↑ Calvin Norris Caldwell photographs on Flicker
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Annual Report: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY: Presbyterian Church Board of Foreign Missions. 1899.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the USA. 156 Fifth Avenue, New York NY: Presbyterian Church Board of Foreign Missions. 1870.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Annual Report: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY: Presbyterian Church Board of Foreign Missions. 1915.
- ↑ genalogical research on Bates family.1911 Census of England and Wales.
- ↑ Who's who in the Far East. Hong Kong: The China Mail. June 1906. p. 291.
- 1 2 3 Yuille, George (1926), History of the Baptists in Scotland from Pre-Reformation Times (PDF), Glasgow: Library and Publications Committee of the Baptist Union of Scotland
- ↑ Glover, Richard, Herbert Stanley Jenkins, medical missionary, Shensi, China: with some notices of the work of the Baptist Missionary Society in that country (1914), London: Carey Press, p. 155
- ↑ Smith FP (1871). Contributions towards the materia medica and natural history of China. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
Further reading
- Anderson, Gerald H. (Ed), Biographical Dictionary of Christian Mission, MacMillan Reference, 1998
- Broomhall, AJ, Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century Vol I, II, III, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1981
- Fulton, Austin Through earthquake wind and fire; Church and mission in Manchuria. Edinburgh, St Andrews Press. 1967. Lists all Church of Scotland, Presbyterian Church of England and Presbyterian Church in Ireland missionaries from 1867-1950. (Contains listing of all their missionaries.)
- Griffiths, Valerie, Not Less Than Everything, Monarch Books & OMF International, Oxford, 2004
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott, A History of Christian Missions in China, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1929
- Lovett, Richard, The History of the London Missionary Society 1795 – 1895 Vol II, Henry Frowde, London, 1899
- Shorrock, Arthur, Shensi in Sunshine and Shade, Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai, 1926
- Sibree, James, Register of LMS Missionaries, 1796–1923, LMS, London, 1923
- Wylie, Alexander (1867). Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.
External links
- Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity
- Missionaries in Amoy (Primarily with the RCA)
- Amoy Mission Project
- List of articles regarding Fuzhou's Christian history
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