Stephen Hobbs (1815-1893) was an Anglican Archdeacon. [1]
Hobbs was educated at the Church Missionary Society College, Islington [2] and ordained in 1839. [3] He served in India at Palamcottah, Tinnevelly, Nallur, Sathankulam, Dohnavur and Suviseshapuram. In 1856 he was transferred to Mauritius, serving firstly at Plaines Wilhems then Creve coeur. He was appointed Archdeacon of the Seychelles from 1871 until 1873; then of Mauritius from 1873 to 1879. [4]
Aubrey George Spencer was the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Newfoundland and Bermuda (1839–1843). He was also bishop of Jamaica. His brother George Spencer became Bishop of Madras. He is from the Spencer family.
Griffith John was a Welsh Christian missionary and translator in China. A member of the Congregational church, he was a pioneer evangelist with the London Missionary Society (LMS), a writer and a translator of the Holy Bible into the Chinese language.
English Wesleyan Mission was a British Methodist missionary society that was involved in sending workers to countries such as New Zealand in the 19th century and China during the late Qing Dynasty.
William Walsh was a Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, Bishop of Mauritius and Dover. At the end of his life he was Archdeacon of Canterbury. While he was Bishop of Mauritius, the island experienced one of its worst cyclones; in consequence his cathedral had to be used temporarily as a hospital.
Philip Freeman (1818–1875) was a Church of England cleric and Archdeacon of Exeter.
Henry Moule (1801–1880) was a priest in the Church of England and inventor of the dry earth toilet, a type of pail closet.
William Armstrong Russell (1821–1879) was an Irish Protestant Christian missionary to China, and served as the Anglican Bishop of North China.
Reginald Thomas Talbot was an Anglican priest in the first part of the 20th century.
George Cardell Briggs was the first Bishop of The Seychelles
John Hannah was a Church of England clergyman and schoolmaster.
Ven. Edward Wix (1802–1866) was an English clergyman best known as an Anglican missionary in Canada.
Edward Balston was an English schoolmaster, Church of England cleric, head master of Eton College from 1862 to 1868 and later Rector of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire, Vicar of Bakewell, Derbyshire, and Archdeacon of Derby.
Henry Room (1802–1850) was an English portrait-painter, from an evangelical background in Birmingham.
Francis R. Hanson was appointed by The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America as one of the first two Episcopal Church missionaries to travel to China in 1835.
The Church Missionary Society in China was a branch organisation established by the Church Missionary Society (CMS), which was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; as a mission society working with the Anglican Communion, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians around the world. In 1812, the organization was renamed the Church Missionary Society. The missions were financed by the CMS with the local organisation of a mission usually being under the oversight of the Bishop of the Anglican diocese in which the CMS mission operated.
William John Woodcock, generally referred to as W. J. Woodcock or John Woodcock, was an Anglican priest remembered as the first curate of Christ Church, North Adelaide in South Australia.
Henry Dison Buswell (1839-1940) was a long lived Anglican Archdeacon.
Koshy Koshy also spelled as Koshi Koshi (1825–1899) was an Indian Anglican priest and Malayalam novelist.
Thomas Samuel Grace was an Anglican priest in the last decades of the 19th century and the opening decades of the 20th.
