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 Church of Scotland Ministers A
| 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. | 695 | | | Surname | Hunter | | | Christian Name(s) | Thomas | | | Wife 1 Surname | Scott | | | Wife 1 Christian name(s) | Jane | | | Father-in-law 1 Surname | Scott | | | Father-in-law 1 Christian name(s) | James | | | Body of text | HUNTER, THOMAS, born Aberdeen, 4th December 1827, fourth son of John H, clerk of Inland Revenue, and brother of Robert H, LLD, FC missionary at Nagpore; educated at Grammar School and King's College, Aberdeen; MA (March 1852); licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh; assistant at Greenside, Edinburgh; ordained (by Presbytery of Edinburgh) first missionary of the Church of Scotland to the Panjab, India, 19th July 1855; sailed 25th August and arrived at Bombay December that year. For a year he was detained in Bombay, where he took charge of the General Assembly's Institution; reached Sialkot January 1857. On 9th June he wrote as his last message (the Mutiny having broken out on 11th May): ""I forbear laying before you our positive danger - about fifty Europeans to defend us against more than 1200 sepoys. We have not followed the example of almost everyone and taken refuge in the Fort of Lahore. We hope still to continue at our post. May the Lord be our Keeper!"" A month afterwards, 9th July, he and his wife and child were massacred. They were buried with other victims of the Mutiny at Sialkot in a garden in the shadow of the Fort in which the rest of the Europeans were saved. A church in their memory was opened at Sialkot 22nd January 1865. He married 19th July 1855, Jane, daughter of James Scott, Edinburgh. [Youngson's Forty Year's of the Panjab Mission (portraits), 70-110 (Edinburgh, 1896).] |
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