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Reverend Joseph Welland (1834-1879) was a missionary from Dublin, Ireland, and founder of the Welland Gouldsmith School, who dedicated his life to Christian ministry in Calcutta, North India during the 19th century. [1] As a member of the Church Missionary Society, Welland served the Cathedral Mission College and Christ Church in Calcutta. [2]
The CMS mission in Calcutta was started in 1822. The first CMS school was opened at Kidderpore, a suburb of Calcutta, in 1816; and the first girls’ school in 1822, by Miss M. A. Cooke, at Calcutta. [7] Reginald Heber, the Bishop of Calcutta (1823–1826) supported the work of the CMS mission. The Revd James Long joined the mission in 1840.
Bust of James Long on James Long Sarani, Kolkata. James Long (1814–1887) was an Anglo-Irish priest of the Anglican Church.A humanist, educator, evangelist, translator, essayist, philanthropist and a missionary to India, he resided in the city of Calcutta, India, from 1840 to 1872 as a member of the Church Missionary Society, leading the mission at Thakurpukur.
On the insistence of Reverend William Taylor, Thoburn left Lucknow in 1874 to serve as a missionary, without salary, from the Missionary Society, in Calcutta, and was associated with that missionary enterprise in 1888. On a busy street in Calcutta Thoburn built, and later rebuilt, a church, which was twice filled to capacity every Sunday. [3]
The logo of Church Missionary Society in 1799. The original proposal for the mission came from Charles Grant and George Udny of the East India Company and David Brown, of Calcutta, who sent a proposal in 1787 to William Wilberforce, then a young member of parliament, and Charles Simeon, a young clergyman at Cambridge University.
Claudius Buchanan FRSE (12 March 1765 – 9 February 1815) was a Scottish theologian, an ordained minister of the Church of England, and an evangelical missionary for the Church Missionary Society. [1] He served as Vice Provost of the College of Calcutta in India.
Thomas Jones (24 January 1810 – 16 September 1849) [1] was a Welsh Christian missionary, who worked among the Khasi people of Meghalaya and Assam in India and of Bangladesh. He recorded the Khasi language in Roman script, and the inscription on his gravestone calls him "The founding father of the Khasi alphabet and literature".
Zenana missions was the strongest feature of this society's labors from the beginning. In Calcutta, it was known as "The American Doremus Zenana Mission". It included the superintendent (always one of the missionary women); 16 missionaries; 55 native teachers; zenana pupils, 1,000; schools, 50; suburban schools, in Kanpur, 12; and Entally, two.