KNOWLES, James Hinton (James Hinton-Knowles?). Clerkenwell, London 1856 — Ely, Cambridgeshire 22.12.1943. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of John Hinton Knowles and Eliza Lane. He worked from 1876 for Church Missionary Society in Srinagar, Kashmir, where he was the director of Mission’s boys’ school 1880-91, and eagerly studied on…
KITTEL, Georg Ferdinand. Resterhafe, Ostfriesland 7.4.1832 — Tübingen 19.12.1905. German Missionary and Indologist, a Kannaḍa Scholar. In India in 1853-77 and 1883-92. Son of a village minister, Gottfried Christian Kittel (1805–1864), and Tjeddowe Helen Hubert, educated at home and in Aurich, but left the school in order to become a…
KILGOUR, Robert. 29.4.1867 — 28.1.1942. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary and Nepali Scholar in India. Son of Robert Kilgour, educated in Glasgow. Studied theology at Glasgow University (M.A. 1886, B.D. 1889, D.D. 1909). In 1889-1909 missionary of Church of Scotland in Darjeeling. In 1909-32 Superintendent of Translating and Editorial Department of…
KENNEDY, Melville Talbot. Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa 21.6.1882 — Norwich, Conn. 2.9.1971. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of John Alexander Kennedy (1848–1932, from Scotland) and Mary Elizabeth McCurdy. Worked for Y.W.C.A. in Calcutta. Returned to Illinois around 1925 and worked as pastor in Champaign. Married 1909 Myra Bessie…
KELLOGG, Samuel Henry. Quoque, Long Island, NY 6.9.1839 — Landour, India (Uttarkhand) 3.5.1899. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Indologist (Hindī scholar) in India. Son of Rev. Samuel Kellogg (1808–1896) and Mary Pierce Henry (1813–1861). Educated at home. Studied at Princeton, graduated in 1861, and in 1864 from Princeton Theological Seminar. D.D.…
KEAY, Frank Ernest. Richmond-on-Thames, Surrey (London) 1879 — Knutsford, Cheshire 28.12.1974. Rev. British Anglican Missionary in India. Son of John Oliver Keay, a grocer, alderman and JP, and Naomi Barrat. Studies in London (B.A. 1900). Started in civil service, but in 1906 joined the Church Missionary Society. Now theological education…
HUTCHISON, John. Johnstone, Renfrewshire 1848 — Chamba 24.7.1936 (when 88). British (Scottish) Missionary in India. Son of Peter H. and Anne Mcghie. Studied medicine in Edinburgh. Medical missionary of the Church of Scotland in the Punjab. Graduated in 1871 and left for India, where he spent the rest of his…
HUNTER, Robert. Newburgh, Fife 3.9.1823 — Loughton, Essex 25.2.1897. Rev. British (Scottish) Missionary in India, Historian, Lexicographer and Naturalist. Son of John Mackenzie Hunter (1795–1878), an excise officer, and Agnes Strickland, educated in Aberdeen. Studies at Aberdeen University, classics and natural science, then theology at Edinburgh. As a tutor in…
HUME, Robert Ernest. Ahmednagar, Maharashtra 20.3.1877 — New York 4.1.1948. Rev. U.S. Missionary and Scholar of Religion. Professor in New York. Born in India as the son of missionary parents, Rev. Robert Allen Hume (1847–1929) and Abigail (Abbie) Lyon Burgess (1849–1881). Also his grandfather (Robert Wilson Hume, 1809–1854) had been…
HUC, Évariste-Régis. Caylus (Tarn-et-Garonne) 1.8.1813 — Paris 31.3.1860. French Lazarist Missionary in China. Son of Jacques-François-Régis Huc and Marie-Rose Maleterre. Seminary in Toulouse. In the age of 24 joined the Vincentian order (C.M.) in Paris, 1838 ordained priest and arrived in China in 1839. Worked in Macao and Peking and…