He was the Irish curate of Midsomer Norton in Somerset Coalfield, who went to Shanghai with the Reverend George Smith (later Bishop of Victoria in Hong Kong 1849) in 1844 as one of the founders of Church Missionary Society work in China. He became a canon of St John's Cathedral in Hong Kong and later at the Holy Trinity Cathedral at Shanghai. He came with his family and served nearly forty years in China before retiring in 1882. Several of his children stayed on in China. <Read more ...>
