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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. | 701 | | | Surname | Mitchell | | | Christian Name(s) | Donald | | | Body of text | MITCHELL, DONALD, born 6th January 1792, son of Donald M, minister of Ardclach ; educated at Parish School and King's College, Aberdeen; MA (31st March 1809). His intention to proceed to the ministry was abandoned on account of Socinian views which he had adopted, and having obtained a cadetship (afterwards lieutenancy) in the HEICS he sailed for India in 1809, where he remained for eight years. While stationed with his regiment at Surat, he came into contact with two agents of the London Missionary Society [Skinner and Fyvie] whose teaching and social intercourse compelled him to reconsider his religious position. In 1817 he returned to Scotland and completed his theological studies at Aberdeen; licensed by Presbytery of Nairn in 1822; appointed missionary to India by the Scottish Missionary Society, and ordained (by foresaid Presbytery) 24th June that year; sailed in August, arrived January 1823, and settled at Bankote, near the mouth of the Savitri; died of fever at Poladhpur 20th November 1823. He was not only the first ordained minister of the Church of Scotland to go to India as a missionary, but also the first missionary from Scotland to land on the shores of India. In his brief year of labour he opened seven schools in Bankote and the Concan country, the aggregate on the roll amounting to 435 pupils. He proved himself a capable administrator, a true missionary in spirit and action. He died with these words on his lips: ""The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, Amen and Amen."" [Tombstone at Poladhpur; Thomson's Autumnal Gleanings, 30-7.] |
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