William Edward Macklin

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William Edward Macklin
Statue of William E. Macklin in Gulou Hospital 2010-11.jpg
Statue of William E. Macklin in Gulou Hospital in 2010
Personal details
Born(1860-05-19)19 May 1860
DiedAugust 8, 1947(1947-08-08) (aged 87)
California, United States
DenominationProtestant
Alma mater University of Toronto
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese

William Edward Macklin (19 May 1860 – 8 August 1947), also known by his Chinese name Ma Lin (马林), was a Canadian medical missionary who mainly practiced in China. [1]

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Biography

William Edward Macklin was born in London, Ontario, Canada on 19 May 1860. [1] His grandfather was an Irish Methodist minister. [1] His father was a merchant. [1] His mother was a devout Christian of French and Irish descent. [1] He had a brother Alfred, who became a physician, and a younger sister Daisy, also a doctor and medical missionary (马芳), as well as three other siblings. [1] [2] [3]

In 1880 he graduated from the University of Toronto, where he majored in medical science. [1] In January 1886, Macklin was sent by the Foreign Christian Missionary Society and became the first missionary of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to China. [1] [4] He settled in Nanjing in April of that same year. [1] Later he established three churches in Nanjing. [1] He started the Nanking Christian Hospital, also known as the Drum Tower Hospital, in 1890 and was completed in 1893, which is the first formal western hospital in Nanjing. [1] [5] The hospital was locally known as "Ma Lin Hospital". [1] He often preached in Chuxian, Hefei and other places in Anhui province. In January 1914, Jinling University acquired the hospital as an affiliated hospital, which was renamed "University Hospital of Nanking". [1]

He was known as a public health reformer and follower of the social philosophy of Henry George. [6]

In 1927, with the onset of the Chinese Civil War, his life was threatened, and he and his family left Nanjing. [7] He and his wife settled in San Gabriel, California, where he died on 8 August 1947. [1]

In 2012, Jimmy Carter visited Nanjing to unveil a statue of Macklin and dedicate a new wing of the Drum Tower Hospital. [8]

Personal life

He married Dorothy DeLany in January 1889. [1] The couple had eight children. [7]

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