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  • Thumbnail for John Bennie (missionary)
    Presbyterian minister, missionary, and early Xhosa linguist. In 1816 he became associated with the Glasgow Missionary Society while still in Scotland...
    7 KB (753 words) - 08:33, 11 November 2024
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    during the 19th century. The efforts of the Glasgow Missionary Society and the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society were largely responsible for the beginnings...
    12 KB (1,366 words) - 17:23, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alice, South Africa
    elevation of 1,720(524m).It was named after John Love of the Glasgow Missionary Society. During the Frontier War it was abandoned and the mission resettled...
    7 KB (439 words) - 09:31, 21 October 2024
  • List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953) Church Missionary Society in China List of Roman Catholic missionaries in China List of Christian...
    61 KB (743 words) - 05:16, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Love (minister)
    the London Missionary Society. Born at Paisley, Renfrewshire on 4 June 1757, he was educated at Paisley grammar school, and then at Glasgow University...
    3 KB (387 words) - 10:57, 25 September 2024
  • Aliwal Balfour, Eastern Cape – Robert Balfour, secretary of the Glasgow Missionary Society Barkly East – Sir Henry Barkly Bedford – Duke of Bedford Butterworth...
    14 KB (1,288 words) - 08:33, 31 July 2024
  • Protestant missionary to China with the London Missionary Society. He was known for his scholarship and translation work as well as founding of the Society for...
    5 KB (563 words) - 03:37, 25 July 2024
  • Glasgow Missionary Society, established at the foot of the Amathole Mountains in 1831. Named after John Burns, minister of the Barony Church, Glasgow...
    3 KB (78 words) - 04:55, 27 April 2022
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    found at the Hunterian Museum today. Glasgow itself was reputed to have been founded by the Christian missionary Saint Mungo in the 6th century. He established...
    229 KB (21,922 words) - 22:16, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Knox Presbyterian Church (Toronto)
    former Secretary of the Glasgow Missionary Society, a friend of Chalmers, and uncle of another well-known minister and missionary, William Chalmers Burns...
    12 KB (1,317 words) - 19:16, 15 April 2024
  • by the parent church in 1831, bolstered with missionaries supplied from the Glasgow Missionary Society. In 1834, this group also began to receive a number...
    44 KB (5,658 words) - 04:11, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lovedale (South Africa)
    the Glasgow Missionary Society (GMS) and was named after Dr John Love, one of the leading members of, and at the time secretary to, the society. The...
    9 KB (1,022 words) - 09:27, 21 October 2024
  • station of the Glasgow Missionary Society in 1828 by John Ross and McDiarmid, and named after Robert Balfour, the first secretary of the society. Throughout...
    4 KB (121 words) - 17:55, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Caldwell
    Robert Caldwell (category British missionary linguists)
    May 1814 – 28 August 1891) was a British missionary and linguist. A missionary for the London Missionary Society, he arrived in British India at age 24...
    16 KB (1,783 words) - 20:55, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Glasgow Kerr
    John Glasgow Kerr (November 30, 1824—1901) was an American medical missionary and philanthropist who helped establish The Canton Hospital, also known as...
    11 KB (1,302 words) - 21:16, 7 November 2024
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    Dugald Mackichan (category Scottish Presbyterian missionaries)
    married a Rev Dr Williamson, an American missionary in India. Glasgow Post Office Directory 1851 "University of Glasgow :: Story :: Biography of Dugald Mackichan"...
    4 KB (415 words) - 23:52, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Nisbet (missionary)
    to serve as missionaries with the London Mission Society. Henry was accepted, and served in Samoa for 36 years. James returned to Glasgow, but still sensed...
    9 KB (1,011 words) - 20:08, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Milne (missionary)
    (April 1785 – 2 June 1822) was the second Protestant missionary sent by the London Missionary Society to China, after his colleague, Robert Morrison. Milne...
    14 KB (1,865 words) - 11:08, 30 August 2024
  • he served as secretary for Scotland of the London Missionary Society. Paterson served as a missionary in Denmark for three years, Sweden and Finland for...
    10 KB (1,041 words) - 02:03, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scottish Protestant missions
    the Edinburgh Missionary Society (EMS, later the Scottish Missionary Society, SMS) and the Glasgow Missionary Society (GMS). Both societies began their...
    29 KB (3,972 words) - 20:58, 12 September 2024
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