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unusual facts about Church Missionary Society



Anthony Norris Groves

In 1826, while continuing his dentistry in Exeter, he enrolled as an external student of theology at Trinity College, Dublin, with a view to ordination in the Church of England and appointment with the Church Missionary Society.

Douglas M. Thornton

Douglas M. Thornton (1873–1907) was an English Christian missionary to Cairo, Egypt with the Church Missionary Society from 1898-1907.

Edmund Peck

In 1875, he studied Greek and theology at the Reading Institute of the Church Missionary Society in Islington, England.

Frederick Foster Gough

Frederick Foster Gough (bapt. 7 February 1825; died 1 June 1889) was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the Church Missionary Society during the late Qing Dynasty in China.

Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley

He took a good deal of interest in the British and Foreign Bible Mission, the Church Missionary Society and kindred bodies, funded Kenyon college and seminary on the U.S. western frontier (the seminary is now named Bexley Hall in his honour) and assisted in founding King's College London.

Three-Self Patriotic Movement

The three principles of self-governance, self-support (i.e., financial independence from foreigners) and self-propagation (i.e., indigenous missionary work) were first articulated by Henry Venn, General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841–73, and Rufus Anderson, foreign secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.


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Gahini

From 1922 the area was temporarily under British control as part of the surveying process for the proposed Cape-Cairo railway, which enabled Doctors Leonard Sharp and Zoe Stanley Smith of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), to start missionary and medical work across eastern Ruanda.

Robert Warren Stewart

On 1 August 1895, he was brutally murdered in Kucheng Hwasang by a sect known as the Vegetarians during the Kucheng Massacre, together with his wife and two children and seven other missionaries connected with the Church Missionary Society or the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society.

Thomas Fitzpatrick

Thomas Henry Fitzpatrick (died 1866), British Church Missionary Society missionary to the Punjab