List of Protestant missionaries in China
Overview
Beginning in 1807, with the arrival of Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society
London Missionary Society
The London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans and Nonconformists, largely Congregationalist in outlook, with missions in the islands of the South Pacific and Africa...

 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur and Wilda Mathews
Arthur Matthews (missionary)
Arthur Matthews was a Protestant Christian missionary who served with the China Inland Mission in China. He and his wife Wilda were the last foreign missionaries to leave China in 1953 following the takeover of the Communist Party of China in 1949....

 of the China Inland Mission
China Inland Mission
OMF International is an interdenominational Protestant Christian missionary society, founded in Britain by Hudson Taylor on 25 June 1865.-Overview:...

, foreign Protestant missionaries lived and worked in China. The following is a list by agency of such missionaries who were specifically noteworthy to history.














































Name
Chinese Name
Born
Died
Arrived in China
Province(s) Stationed
William Scott Ament
William Scott Ament
William Scott Ament was a missionary to China for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1877, and was known as the "Father of Christian Endeavor in China." Ament became prominent as a result of his heroism during the Boxer Uprising and controversial...


梅子明
14 September 1851
8 January 1909
1877
Zhili
Zhili
Zhílì was a northern province in China from the Ming Dynasty until the province was dissolved in 1928 during the Republic of China era.-History:...

, Beijing
Caleb Cook Baldwin
Caleb Cook Baldwin
Caleb Cook Baldwin was one of the first Presbyterian missionaries to Foochow, China.- Life and works :...



1820
1911
1848
Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...


Dyer Ball
Dyer Ball
Dyer Ball was an American missionary and medical doctor in China. Born in West Boylston, Massachusetts, Dyer Ball studied at Phillips Academy and at Yale College for two years. He graduate from Union College, New York, in 1826, and then studied Theology at Yale and Andover Theological Seminary...



June 3, 1796
1866
1841
Macao
Mação
Mação is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 400.0 km² and a total population of 7,763 inhabitants.The municipality is composed of eight parishes, and is located in the Santarém District....

, Hong Kong, Canton
Harlan Page Beach
Harlan Page Beach
Harlan Page Beach was an American missionary, brother of David Nelson Beach. He was born at South Orange, N. J., and graduated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts in 1874, Yale in 1878, and at the Andover Theological Seminary . He was missionary to China from 1883 to 1890 and at the head...


畢海瀾
1854
March 4, 1933
1883

Willard Livingstone Beard
Willard Livingstone Beard
Willard Livingstone Beard was an American missionary serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Foochow, China.- Life :...


裨益知
1865
1947
1894
Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...


Henry Blodget (missionary)
與白漢理


1854
Shanghai, Tianjin
Tianjin
' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...

, Beijing
Elijah Coleman Bridgman
Elijah Coleman Bridgman
Elijah Coleman Bridgman was the first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. He served with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions...


裨治文
April 22, 1801
November 2, 1861
1830
Guangdong
Guangdong
Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

; Shanghai
James Granger Bridgman

December, 1820
December 6, 1850
1844
Shanghai
Eliza Jane Gillett Bridgman

1805
1871
1844
Guangdong
Guangdong
Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

; Shanghai; Beijing
Samuel William Bonney

March 8, 1815
July 27, 1864
1845
Hong Kong; Guangdong
Guangdong
Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...


Seneca Cummings
簡明
1817
1856
1848
Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...


Justus Doolittle
Justus Doolittle
Justus Doolittle was an American Board missionary to China.-Life:Justus Doolittle was born in Rutland, New York on June 23, 1824. In 1846 he graduated from Hamilton College, and in 1849 from Auburn Theological Seminary. Having deliberately chosen China as his field of labor, he sailed for Fuhchau...


盧公明
1824
1880

Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...


Charles Hartwell
Charles Hartwell
Rev. Charles Hartwell was an American Board missionary to Foochow, China in the second half of the 19th century.- Life and work :Charles Hartwell was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts on December 19, 1825, and was fitted for college at Westford Academy in Westford, Massachusetts...


夏察理
1825
1905
1853
Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...


Stephen Johnson (missionary)




Zhejiang
Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...


Walter Henry Judd

September 25, 1898
February 13, 1994
1925

Daniel Jerome MacGowan

1815
1893

Zhejiang
Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital...


Luella Miner





Peter Parker
Peter Parker (physician)
Peter Parker was an American physician and a missionary who introduced Western medical techniques into Qing Dynasty China. It was said that Parker "opened China to the gospel at the point of a lancet."- Early life :...


伯駕
1804
1888
1834
Guangdong
Guangdong
Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...


Lyman Birt Peet




Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...


Horace Tracy Pitkin





Frank Joseph Rawlinson
樂靈生




William L.
 
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