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- [1853], 1907-1940 (Creation)
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6 boxes
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Biographical history
Born, 1862; second son of the founder of the China Inland Mission, James Hudson Taylor; MD, London, 1888; member of the Royal College of Physicians, 1889; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; initiated the Student Foreign Missionary Union; toured the USA and Canada with his father, 1888; served the China Inland Mission in Henan from 1890; peripatetic medical missionary; married M Geraldine Guinness, 1894; travelled frequently with his father; died, 1946. Publications: Pastor Hsi: One of China's Christians (1905); Hudson Taylor in early years: the growth of a soul (1911); Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: the Growth of a Work of God (1918); The Triumph of John and Betty Stam (1935); Biography of James Hudson Taylor (1965).
Archival history
The papers form part of the series of personal and private papers of individual missionaries among the records of the China Inland Mission.
GB 0102 CIM/PP 119-157 [1853], 1907-1940 Collection (fonds) 6 boxes Taylor , Frederick Howard , 1862-1946 , medical missionary
Born, 1862; second son of the founder of the China Inland Mission, James Hudson Taylor; MD, London, 1888; member of the Royal College of Physicians, 1889; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; initiated the Student Foreign Missionary Union; toured the USA and Canada with his father, 1888; served the China Inland Mission in Henan from 1890; peripatetic medical missionary; married M Geraldine Guinness, 1894; travelled frequently with his father; died, 1946. Publications: Pastor Hsi: One of China's Christians (1905); Hudson Taylor in early years: the growth of a soul (1911); Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: the Growth of a Work of God (1918); The Triumph of John and Betty Stam (1935); Biography of James Hudson Taylor (1965).
The papers form part of the series of personal and private papers of individual missionaries among the records of the China Inland Mission.
Donated with the records of the China Inland Mission from 1991.
Papers, [1853], 1907-1940, of Frederick Howard Taylor: research notes on Chinese tribes, [1853], 1907-1940, comprising correspondence, articles, notes, maps, and many photographs of China and its inhabitants; typescripts [after 1905, before 1946] on the life of James Hudson Taylor between 1854 and 1905.
The papers are divided between Taylor's notes on tribes (Ref: Boxes 11-12 Files 119-37) and his typescripts (Ref: Boxes 13-16 Files 138-157).
Unrestricted. Readers should order the documents as CIM boxes 11-16 in SOAS Special Collections Reading Room.
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
English and Chinese
Database and unpublished handlist.
The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the China Inland Mission (Ref: CIM), including various correspondence of Frederick Howard Taylor.
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: A J Broomhall, It is not Death to Die! (1989), vol vii of Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, p 677; British Library OPAC. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Mar 2002 Asians China China Inland Mission East Asia Ethnic groups Evangelistic missionaries Maps Medical missionaries Missionaries Photographs Religious groups Taylor , Frederick Howard , 1862-1946 , medical missionary Taylor , James Hudson , 1832-1905 , founder of the China Inland Mission and the Chefoo Schools x Taylor , Hudson Travel Travel abroad Tribes Visual materials
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Donated with the records of the China Inland Mission from 1991.
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Papers, [1853], 1907-1940, of Frederick Howard Taylor: research notes on Chinese tribes, [1853], 1907-1940, comprising correspondence, articles, notes, maps, and many photographs of China and its inhabitants; typescripts [after 1905, before 1946] on the life of James Hudson Taylor between 1854 and 1905.
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The papers are divided between Taylor's notes on tribes (Ref: Boxes 11-12 Files 119-37) and his typescripts (Ref: Boxes 13-16 Files 138-157).
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Unrestricted. Readers should order the documents as CIM boxes 11-16 in SOAS Special Collections Reading Room.
Conditions governing reproduction
No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
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- English
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- Latin
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English and Chinese
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The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the China Inland Mission (Ref: CIM), including various correspondence of Frederick Howard Taylor.
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Database and unpublished handlist.
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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- English