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| Date transcribed | 2011-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Jane Britcliffe, Peter Schofield, Penny Tipper | | Comment | List of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India or South Asia, extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae |
| | Section | India  | | | Volume No. | 7 | | | Page No. | 687 | | | Surname | Anderson | | | Christian Name(s) | John | | | Wife 1 Surname | Locher | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Margaret | | | Body of text | ANDERSON, JOHN, born at Craig Farm, Kirkpatrick-Durham, 23rd May 1805, eldest son in a family of nine, his father being blind; educated at the Parish School and University of Edinburgh (which he entered in his twenty-second year); during part of this period he taught the Mariners' School at Leith; tutor in the family of Alexander Cowan, Callander, and at Troqueer Holm on the Nith; licensed by Presbytery of Dumfries 3rd May 1836; offered for service in India (impelled thereto chiefly by Dr Duff's great missionary address to the General Assembly); appointed by Foreign Mission Committee 28th June, and ordained 13th July 1836; sailed in the Scotia 13th August, arrived at Calcutta 27th December and Madras 22nd February 1837. On 3rd April he took charge of St Andrew's School (established by two Scottish chaplains, Matthew Bowie and George James Lawrie in 1835) beginning his labours as a missionary with fifty-nine Hindu boys and young men - the nucleus of the Madras Christian College. Joined the Free Church in 1843; revisited Scotland in 1849, when he was accompanied by the Rev. P. Rajahgopaul, one of his first converts; returned December 1850; died 25th March 1855. His work for India was entirely educational. He established schools in various centres, and greatly helped by his wife, devoted himself to the instruction of native girls of all castes and creeds giving special attention to those of higher caste as being more difficult to draw within Christian influences. Before his death seven hundred Hindu and Mohammedan girls were in attendance at his mission schools. He married 29th January 1847, Margaret Locher (died without issue), a Swiss lady from Zurich, appointed in 1845 missionary at Madras of the Ladies' Association of the Church of Scotland. She joined the Free Church April 1846. [Braidwood's True Yoke-Fellows in the Indian Mission Field (portraits) (London, 1862)] |
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