James Laidlaw Maxwell, Junior, (1876–12 August 1951，) was a pioneering modern English Presbyterian

United Reformed Church

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 medical missionary

Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...

 to Taiwan

Taiwan

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 and China

China

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. He was the son of James Laidlaw Maxwell

James Laidlaw Maxwell

James Laidlaw Maxwell Senior was the first Presbyterian missionary to Taiwan . He served with the English Presbyterian Mission....

, Senior.

J. Laidlaw Maxwell followed his father, and served in the Tainan hospital his father started from 1900 to 1923. In 1923, he was appointed secretary of the China Medical Missionary Association. He died of Malaria

Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...

 in Hangchow in 1951.