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…
HOSTEN, Henri. Ramskapelle, West Flanders 26.3.1873 — Brussels 16.4.1935. S.J. Father. Belgian Missionary Scholar in India. After studies in Turnhout joined 1891 the Jesuit Order. Suspected of consumption he was in 1893 sent to Kandy to die there, but recovered quickly and started Latin teacher’s work in Ceylon. In 1900…
HORST, Christopher Henry (Christoph Heinrich). Willenburg near Schwerin 24.5.1761 — Tanjavur 10.7.1810. German Lutheran Missionary in India. Son of Anton Wilhelm Horst (1714–1789) and Veronica Voigt (1719–1761). Grew up in Ratzeburg. From 1781 studied medicine at Göttingen, but soon joined Hannoveran army and went to India, arriving 1787 in Madras.…
HOOLE, Elijah. Manchester 1798 — London 17.6.1872. Rev. British Missionary in India. Son of Holland Hoole, a shoemaker, educated at Manchester. In 1813 left school to help his father’s business, but turned to religion and studied privately for Wesleyan ministry. In 1820 he went to India as a Wesleyan missionary,…
HOLBROOKE, George Otis. 20.8.1850 — 1921. U.S. Methodist Missionary in South India. Son of John George Holbrooke (1814–1897) and Marian Marshall. Educated in Boston. Worked in machinery, but after an accident taking his right hand became missionary in Vikarabad, Telangana. Later returned to the U.S.A. and apparently taught at Trinity…