List of Protestant missionaries in China

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Beginning in 1807, with the arrival of Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur and Wilda Mathews of the China Inland Mission, foreign Protestant missionaries lived and worked in China. The following is a list by agency of such missionaries who were specifically noteworthy to history.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Sourced additions are welcome and you can help by expanding it.

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[edit] China Inland Mission

The Hundred missionaries deployed in 1887.

The Hundred were deployed by the China Inland Mission in response to a call for workers issued in 1886. All of the 100 candidates had been sent to China by 1887. This was further catapulted the mission into the public spotlight and dramatically increased the size of the entire Protestant missionary enterprise in China in the 1800s. Also noteworthy was the fact that over half were single women.

• 1. John Brock (missionary)
• 2. William Russell
• 3. John Darroch
• 4. Erik Folke
• 5. F. Dymond
• 6. S. Pollard
• 7. Gertrude Muir
• 8. Priscilla Livingstone Stewart (Priscilla Studd)
• 9. C. Thomson
• 10. K. McWatters
• 11. E. J. Burroughes
• 12. F. M. Britton
• 13. E. M. Johnson
• 14. A. McQuillan
• 15. Caroline Gates
• 16. J. A. Miller
• 17. M. MacKee
• 18. H. Parker
• 19. E. Webber
• 20. C. Groves
• 21. Knight
• 22. L. K. Ellis
• 23. Alexander Armstrong
• 24. Mrs. Armstrong
• 25. M. E. Scott
• 26. A. A. Miles
• 27. H. Judd
• 28. E. Culverwell
• 29. L. M. Forth
• 30. Stewartson
• 31. W. J. Lewis
• 32. A. Hoddle
• 33. J. O. Curnow
• 34. A. H. Faers
• 35. I. F. Drysdale
• 36. D. J. Mills
• 37. James Adam
• 38. Archibald Gracie
• 39. Ed Tomkinson
• 40. Mrs. Tomkinson
• 41. E. Maud Holme
• 42. H. R. Waldie
• 43. A. K. Ferriman
• 44. S. E. Bastone
• 45. A. K. Hook
• 46. Harriet Cutt
• 47. Emma Fryer
• 48. H. N. MacGregor
• 49. John A. Stooke
• 50. Mrs. Stooke
• 51. Archibald Orr Ewing (missionary)
• 52. Dagald Lawson
• 53. A. H. Huntley
• 54. Florence Ellis
• 55. Clara Ellis
• 56. K. Williamson
• 57. M. Palmer
• 58. E. Hainge
• 59. M. Mitchell
• 60. E. Marchbank
• 61. I. W. Ramsey
• 62. Gertrude Ord
• 63. Benjamin Ririe
• 64. F. A. Redfern
• 65. R. Wellwood
• 66. Alexander Reid Saunders
• 67. Alfred Bland
• 68. Albert Lutley
• 69. Joshua Vale
• 70. Charles S. I’Anson
• 71. B. Curtis Waters
• 72. May Graham Brown
• 73. F. M. Williams
• 74. J. Arthur
• 75. M. J. Eland
• 76. E. Kentfield
• 77. L. Chilton
• 78. A. Barrett
• 79. William Grahame Peat
• 80. W. M. Belcher
• 81. F. E. Lund
• 82. A. H. Bridge
• 83. Ebenezer Murray
• 84. George A. Cox
• 85. Campbell
• 86. E. Hanbury
• 87. John T. Reid
• 88. Mrs. Reid
• 89. Anna Crewdson
• 90. Robina Crewdson
• 91. N. R. Rogers
• 92. Theresa E. Dawson (died in 1888)
• 93. J. Sutherland
• 94. Clara Baker
• 95. James Simpson
• 96. Mrs. Simpson
• 97. W. E. Shearer
• 98. Thomas D. Begg
• 99. Thomas Eyres
• 100. Ole S. Nastegaard

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