Hampshire

…pioneer missionary had left his home in Leicester with his eldest son to join a ship for India, but confusion over money with the newly formed Baptist Missionary Society meant…

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Devon

…to thy cross I cling.   BROADHEMBURY Toplady memorial Along the broad main street, thatched cottages outnumber conventional ones by at least five to one. In 1768, Augustus Toplady was…

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Leicestershire

…beneath the open skies. While many of her guests remained sceptical or indifferent, a small but significant number became committed Christians. She tried to remain within the confines of the…

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Cumbria

…and one of its first candidates was Wilson’s adopted daughter Amy Wilson Carmichael, who sailed for India in 1895 and worked with children at Dohnavur for the next 55 years….

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Gloucestershire

…one of its pioneers, Richard Knill, after labouring in India and Russia, returned to minister here for six years in the 1840s.   DEERHURST Odda’s Chapel Lying beside the Severn…

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Lincolnshire

…commentary on the book of Job. He even contemplated founding a missionary society to take the gospel to India and China at a time when few gave any thought to…

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Northumberland

…a missionary, at the same time studying Chinese.  Appointed as a translator to the East India Company, he left for Canton in 1807, but spent much of the next twenty…

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Shropshire

…the public at selected times In 1823, Heber was appointed Bishop of Calcutta. He worked tirelessly to establish the church in India, visiting most parts of the subcontinent, but died…

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Sussex

…several daughters. One of his friends at Cambridge had been Henry Martyn (1781-1812), the pioneer missionary to India and Persia. Weak and exhausted, Martyn was returning to England when he…

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