George Smith

June 19, 1815 (age 56)

Wellington, Somerset, United Kingdom

He rapidly became involved in the Church Missionary Society and he and the Revd T McClatchie arrived in Shanghai on 25 September 1844 to establish a mission. Poor health forced an early return to England, but Smith"s Narrative of his period in China was published in 1847. Smith worked hard to rise money for further missionary work in China, and in 1849 was made bishop of the new diocese of Victoria (Hong Kong) and warden of the newly founded Street Paul"s Missionary College (see Street Paul"s College). He learned Mandarin, becoming sufficiently fluent to conduct services in lieutenant Smith was also responsible for missionary work in China and Japan. A weak constitution limited this work, but he nevertheless visited Japan (1860), the Ryukyu islands (1850), India and Ceylon (1852–1853), Australia (1859), and elsewhere, partly to work for emigrants from China. Smith left Hong Kong for the last time in 1864, retiring from the bishopric the next year. He died in his house at Blackheath (then in Kent, now in London), on 14 December 1871 after a short illness.

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Smith was born in Wellington, Somerset on 19 June 1815.

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University of Oxford.

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He rapidly became involved in the Church Missionary Society and he and the Revd T McClatchie arrived in Shanghai on 25 September 1844 to establish a mission. Poor health forced an early return to England, but Smith"s Narrative of his period in China was published in 1847. Smith worked hard to rise money for further missionary work in China, and in 1849 was made bishop of the new diocese of Victoria (Hong Kong) and warden of the newly founded Street Paul"s Missionary College (see Street Paul"s College).

He learned Mandarin, becoming sufficiently fluent to conduct services in lieutenant

Smith was also responsible for missionary work in China and Japan. A weak constitution limited this work, but he nevertheless visited Japan (1860), the Ryukyu islands (1850), India and Ceylon (1852–1853), Australia (1859), and elsewhere, partly to work for emigrants from China.

Smith left Hong Kong for the last time in 1864, retiring from the bishopric the next year. He died in his house at Blackheath (then in Kent, now in London), on 14 December 1871 after a short illness.

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