Douglas M. Thornton (1873–1907) was an English Christian missionary to Cairo, Egypt with the Church Missionary Society from 1898-1907.
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He was Principal of the CMS School at Batala from then until 1928; and then held a similar post at Dera Ismail Khan until 1935.
In 1875, he studied Greek and theology at the Reading Institute of the Church Missionary Society in Islington, England.
CMS (Church Mission Society) at Kottayam started printing books in Grantha Malayalam when Benjamin Bailey an Anglican priest in 1821 made the first Malayalam types.
Thomas Patrick Hughes, born 26 March 1838 in Henley Shrophsire, England, was a missionary with the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Peshawar in British India (now Pakistan) for 20 years.
In 1823, after performing Christian conversions at Sathankulam, the Rev. C T E Rhenius, (the first Church Mission Society missionary in India), visited Solaikudiyiruppu.
The Church Mission Society founded Fourah Bay College in 1827 to provide training for African missionaries.