List of Protestant missionaries in China


This is a list of notable Protestant missionaries in China by agency. Beginning with the arrival of Robert Morrison in 1807 and ending in 1953 with the departure of Arthur Matthews and Dr. Rupert Clark of the China Inland Mission, thousands of foreign Protestant missionaries and their families, lived and worked in China to spread Christianity, establish schools, and work as medical missionaries.

Missionary organizations

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

American Presbyterian Mission

American Southern Methodist Mission

American Southern Baptist Mission

China Inland Mission

Church Missionary Society

English Presbyterian Mission

London Missionary Society

Mission Covenant Church of Sweden

Protestant Episcopal Church Mission

A list of missionaries of the Episcopal Church a member Province of the worldwide Anglican Communion that served in China from 1835.
In 1912, Episcopal Church missionary activities in China were reorganized with Anglican mission initiatives of the Church of England and other Anglican provinces under the banner of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui.
NameChinese nameBornDiedArrived in ChinaProvince stationed
William Jones Boone文惠廉1 July 181117 July 18641842Shanghai
William Jones Boone, Jr.17 May 18465 October 1891Shanghai
James M. CotterJanuary 17, 1889October 1, 19641912-1921
Lydia Mary Fay18045 October 18781851Shanghai
Francis Hanson27 March 180721 October 18731835Canton, Batavia
James Addison Ingle殷徳生11 March 18677 December 1903Hankow
Emma G. Jones18791845Shanghai
Cleveland KeithJuly 18621851
John Liggins11 May 18298 January 19121856Shanghai, Nagasaki
Henry LockwoodNovember 18831835Canton, Batavia
Mary J. MorseMarch 18791845Shanghai
Robert Nelson30 November 181915 July 18861851Shanghai
Henry M. Parker1831October 18611859
John Tevis Points183018601851Shanghai
Francis Lister Hawks Pott卜舫濟22 February 18647 March 1947Shanghai
Logan Hebert Roots27 July 187023 September 19451896Wuchang, Hankow
Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky施約瑟6 May 183115 October 19061859Shanghai
Edward W. Syle17 February 18175 October 18901845Shanghai, Yokohama
Channing Moore Williams17 July 18292 December 19101856Shanghai, Japan

English Baptist Missionary Society

NameDates in ChinaProvince stationed
Alfred G. Jones1877-1905Shandong
Arthur Gostick Shorrock BA1890–1925Sianfu, Principal of Bible School
Maud Mary Shorrock BA1900–1925Sianfu, Principal of Girls' School
MA, LLD1892–1906Sianfu, Shansi
1892–1906Sianfu, Shansi
MA LLD1896–Sianfu, Shansi, Shanghai
F Madeley MA1889–Sianfu, Shantung
Miss Jennie Beckingsale BA1898–1913Sianfu
JAC Smith MB ChB1899–1905Sianfu
C Cheeseman1903–1904Sianfu
Miss Evelyn Minnie Russell1903–Sianfu
JC Keyte MA1904–Sianfu, Shantung, Peking
Dr Herbert Stanley Jenkins MD FRCS1904–1913Sianfu
John Bell ATS1905–San Yuan
Miss KM Franklin1905–Sianfu, Women's work
Andrew Young LRCP&S1905–1923San Yuan
J Watson1906–Sianfu, Principal of Secondary School
Ernest F Borst-Smith1906–Sianfu, Shantung and Shanghai
George A Charter LRCP&S1908–1919Sianfu
Mrs Helen Mackay-Scollay 1908–1917;1918–1925Sianfu
Dr Thomas Scollay1913–1917; died Ontario, Canada 1918Sianfu
William Mudd1909–Fu Yin Tsun
E J Ellison BSc1909–1912Sianfu, Shantung, Kuling
Dr Cecil F Robertson FRCS1909–1913Sianfu
W Comerford1909–Sianfu, Shantung
H H Stanley1910–1912Sianfu
Donald Smith MA1910–1912Sianfu, Yenanfu

Protestant missionaries affiliated with other agencies