John Shaw Burdon

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John Shaw Burdon (1826-1907) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China with the Church Mission Society. He opposed Britain's part in the Opium Wars in China. In 1874 he was made bishop of the South China Diocese of the Anglican Church in Victoria and Hong Kong.

He was a friend and fellow travelling evangelist with the young Hudson Taylor and he was briefly, his brother-in-law. Burdon's first marriage in 1857 was to Burella Dyer, the daughter of the late missionary Samuel Dyer. She died the following year in Shanghai of Cholera.

The school, named Tong Wen Guan, was officially opened on June 11, 1862, and Burdon was hired as the first English instructor.^[1]

Contents 1 Works authored 2 References 3 External Links 4 Notes

[edit] Works authored

• Old Testament Manual

[edit] References

• Broomhall, Alfred (1983). Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: Over The Traty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 

[edit] External Links

• OMF International (formerly China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship)

[edit] Notes