James Cosh
James Cosh (27 June 1838 – 20 September 1900) was a Scottish-Australian missionary and academic. He was born near Stranraer, and studied at the University of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh before being ordained by the Reformed Presbyterian Church.
Cosh served for four years on Efate in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). He translated Genesis and John into the local language.[1]
Cosh moved to Australia and served as a theological lecturer, before being appointed to the Hunter Baillie chair of Oriental and Polynesian Languages in St Andrew's College, University of Sydney in 1899.
J. Graham Miller suggests that Cosh's "devoted and distinguished service in Australia revealed the permanent value of those few brief years of missionary work on Efate."[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Cosh, James (1838–1900)
- ^ J. Graham Miller, Live, Volume 2, p. 80.
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- 1838 births
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- People from Stranraer
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Scottish Presbyterian missionaries
- Presbyterian missionaries in Vanuatu
- Scottish emigrants to Australia
- Translators of the Bible into Oceanic languages
- Academic staff of the University of Sydney
- 19th-century Scottish translators
- British expatriates in Vanuatu
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