List of Protestant missionaries in India

Several Baptist Missionary Society, SPCK, LMS, Basel Mission, CMS, SPG, Zenana mission, Medical Mission, American Mission, Danish Mission, and Methodist Mission missionaries have contributed for the progressive Christian community in India. These missionaries have made a vast contributions in the districts of Tinnevelly and Travancore, which covers most of the southern Tamil Nadu.^[1]^[2] These missions were mostly influenced under the direct control of the Church of England.

The following is an incomplete list of Protestant missionaries in India.

MissionariesEdit

Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie - originally from the Congregational Church; ordained in the Church of South India^[3]
Rev. Ellis O. Shaw - from the Church of Scotland; served in the Church of South India
Rt. Rev. James Edward Lesslie Newbigin - Ordained in Church of Scotland; affiliated with the United Reformed Church; served in the Church of South India
Rev. Arthur Margoschis - Nazareth, Tamil Nadu - SPG missionary
Rev. Dr. J.M. Strachan - Medical Mission at Nazareth, Tamil Nadu - SPG missionary - Bishop of Rangoon
Rev. Augustus Frederick Caemmerer - SPG missionary
Ann Caemmerer - Started the first Girls High School in South India - St. Johns Girls High School, Nazareth - Daughter of Rev. Charles Mead - and Wife of Rev. A.F. Caemmerer
Rev. Dr. Hermann Gundert - German linguist and Basel missionary to India
Rev. Dr. Eugen Liebendörfer - German physician and Basel missionary to India
Rev. Charles Mead - LMS Missionary to Travancore
Rev Charles Mault - LMS Missionary to Travancore
Rev. Volbrecht Nagel - German missionary to India
George Pieritz - SPG missionary
Rev. John Alfred Sharrock - SPG missionary
Rev. A. Brotherton Vickers - SPG missionary
Rev. Adam Compton Thomson - SPG missionary
Rev. Luke Rivington - Missionary at Edeyengoody
Rev. Simeon Wilberforce O'Neill
Rev. Henry Constantine Huxtable - SPG missionary at Sawyerpuram and Christianagaram
Rev. Christian Samuel Kohloff - SPG missionary at Christianagaram
Rev. James Kershaw Best - SPG missionary at Christianagaram
Rev. H. B. Norman - SPG missionary at Mudalur
Rev. Graham Basanti - women missionary at Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church
Rev. James Hough - Chaplain of Palamcottah - Honourable East India Company^[4]
Rev. John Thomas - C.M.S. Missionary of Prakasapuram and Mengnanapuram - called as Apostle of South Tirunelveli
Rev. Schaffter - C.M.S. Missionary
Sarah Tucker - C.M.S. Missionary
Rev. John Thomas Tucker - C.M.S. Missionary at Paneivilei, Tinnevelly
Thomas Gajetan Ragland - C.M.S. Missionary at North Tinnevelly
Rev. William Tobias Ringeltaube - LMS Missionary to Travancore
Rev. James Duthie - LMS Missionary to Travancore
J.T. Margoschis - SPG Missionary - Principal - SPG High School - Trichinopoly
Reginald Heber - Bishop of Calcutta
Christian Friedrich Schwarz - German S.P.C.K. Missionary
Joseph Daniel Jaenicke - German S.P.C.K. Missionary
Christian William Gericke - S.P.C.K. Missionary
John Caspar Kohlhoff - S.P.C.K. Missionary
Rev. Joseph Light Wyatt - SPG missionary - Bishop Heber College
Isabella Wyatt - Wife of Rev. J.L. Wyatt, and the eldest daughter of Robert Caldwell
Rev. G.T. Washburn - American Madura Mission
Dr. C.S. Shelton - American Madura Mission
Dr. Steele - American Madura Mission
Rev. John Anderson - Missionary from Church of Scotland - Founder - Madras Christian College
Rev. William Miller - Missionary from Church of Scotland - Madras Christian College
Lady White - Methodist Missionary
Miss Katie Wilcox - American Board of Congregational Churches - Founder of Lady Doak College, Madurai
Miss Kathleen Nora Brockway - Founder of St. Christopher's College of Education, Chennai
Miss Eleanor McDougall - Missionary Educator - Founder Principal of Women's Christian College - Madras
George Trevor Spencer - Lord Bishop of Madras
Paul Olaf Bodding
Paul Wilson Brand
Edith Mary Brown
Nathan Brown
Robert Caldwell
Eliza Caldwell - Wife of Robert Caldwell, and Daughter of Rev. Charles Mault
William Carey
Amy Carmichael
Alexander Crawford - first Presbyterian missionary to India (1823–29)^[5]
Alexander Duff
James Glasgow (1805–90) - early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1841-1864)^[6]^[7]
Anthony Norris Groves
John Christian Frederick Heyer
Sam Higginbottom
John Nelson Hyde
Lyman Jewett
E. Stanley Jones
Samuel H. Kellogg - translator of Hindi Bible
Alexander Kerr - early missionary from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (1841)^[8]
James Long - Church Missionary Society missionary
Joshua Marshman
Henry Martyn - Church Missionary Society missionary
Donald McGavran
V. Nagel
J. Waskom Pickett
George Uglow Pope
Ida S. Scudder
Lars Olsen Skrefsrud
Graham Staines
Alfred Sturge
Ralph T. Templin
William Ward^[9]
Rev C. T. E. Rhenius - first Church Missionary Society missionary
Rev. George Pettitt - Church Missionary Society missionary
Bishop Edward Sargent - Church Missionary Society missionary
Charlotte White - first unmarried American woman missionary
H. U. Weitbrecht - Church Missionary Society missionary, author of "The Revision of the Urdu New Testament"
Sister Joyce M. Woollard
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
Heinrich Plütschau
Johann Ernst Gründler
Rev. Benjamin Schultze - Translated and printed Old Testament - Bible, in Tamil.
Johann Fabricius - Translated and printed New Testament - Bible, in Tamil
Rev. Dr. J. P. Rottler - Danish Mission
Dr. Christopher Samuel John - Danish Mission
Rev. Peter Percival - Wesleyan Methodist Mission
Rev. David Rosen - Danish Missionary - Has worked at Nicobar Islands, Nazareth and Mudalur
Rev. John Ludovick Irion - Netherland Missionary Society - Has worked at Nazareth and Mudalur
Rev. Thomas Brotherton - Missionary at Tanjore, Madras, and Nazareth
Rev. Carlin Wilfred Weston - Missionary at Nazareth
Rev. Cecil George Stapley - Missionary at Nazareth
Rev. James F. Kearns - Missionary at Puthiamputhur
Rev. Draviam Koilpillai - Headmaster of St. Aidan's College at Natal (S. Africa), Military Chaplain at Mesapotamia, & a friend of M.K. Gandhi - Missionary at Nazareth
Rev. Stephen Charles Neill - Nazareth Station - Bishop of Tinnevelly
Rev. Robert Carver - Methodist Missionary
Rev. Charles Hubbard - First English Missionary employed by S.P.G. in Tinnevelly
Mason Vaugh and Clara Pennington - Founder of Allahabad Agricultural Institute
Elmer Whitcomb and Adella Rodeheffer - Founder of Evangelical Hospital, Tilda
William Keith Whitcomb and Dorothy Vaugh - United Church Board for World Ministries
Harwood W Raw, 1871-1905 - Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society served in Madras from 1896 until his premature death in 1905
Rev. William Tobias Ringeltaube, (1770- ?) - London Missionary Society served in the then South Travancore, present revenue district of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu
Rev. Robert Turlington Noble - Founder of Noble College, Machilipatnam
Hopestill Pillow - Zenana Missionary to India

ReferencesEdit

↑ Church of South India, Tirunelveli Diocese. "Missionaries".
↑ Gore, David. "Faith and Family in South India".
↑ http://www.murdochmackenzieofargyll.com/
↑ Perry, Frank. "Chaplains in the HEIC 1805 to 1835, The Church In Madras 1904)".
↑ http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction_crawford_d2003.pdf
↑ http://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction_crawford_d2003.pdf
↑ http://www.library.yale.edu/div/fa/Gujarat.html
↑ http://www.library.yale.edu/div/fa/Gujarat.html
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External linksEdit

[1] Church of South India, Tirunelveli Diocese. "Missionaries".

[2] Gore, David. "Faith and Family in South India".

[3] ttp://www.murdochmackenzieofargyll.com/

[4] Perry, Frank. "Chaplains in the HEIC 1805 to 1835, The Church In Madras 1904)".

[5] ttp://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction_crawford_d2003.pdf

[6] ttp://www.proni.gov.uk/introduction_crawford_d2003.pdf

[7] ttp://www.library.yale.edu/div/fa/Gujarat.html

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