Education
Maxwell studied medicine and took his degree at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
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Maxwell studied medicine and took his degree at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
He worked in London at Brompton Hospital and at the Birmingham General Hospital. He donated a small printing press to the church which was later used to print the Taiwan Church News. First his mission centred in the then-capital Taiwan Fu (now Tainan City).
In 1868 he moved near Qijin (now part of Kaohsiung) where his work, both medical and missionary, became more welcomed.
They had two sons, John Preston and James Laidlaw Jnr, both of whom later also became medical missionaries. He retired in London in 1885 where he formed and became the first secretary of the Medical Missionary Association.
The younger J. L. Maxwell served in the Tainan hospital from 1900 to 1923, during Taiwan"s Japanese era.
