- Herbert Hudson Taylor
Herbert Hudson Taylor (
April 3 ,1861 –June 6 ,1950 ), BritishProtestant Christian missionary toChina , author, speaker and eldest son ofJames Hudson Taylor , founder of theChina Inland Mission andMaria Jane Dyer . He served there for over 50 years – the last three as one of the prisoners of the Japanese at theWeifang internment camp duringWorld War II along withEric Liddell and 1500 others.Herbert Taylor was four when his father founded the China Inland Mission. He had been born in
London during his parents’ first furlough in England together. At the time of his birth, they were living with his aunt and uncle Amelia andBenjamin Broomhall at 63 Westbourne Grove, inBayswater . In 1866 at the age of five Herbert and his parents, three siblings and sixteen other missionaries sailed to China aboard theLammermuir (clipper) as part of the famousLammermuir Party . During the four-month long voyage the ship was nearly wrecked by twotyphoons .On arrival in China, the family adopted Chinese clothing and food and set off to find a place to establish a mission cente in
Zhejiang . On the way, Herbert almost drowned when he fell overboard into theGrand Canal of China during their travels. Another scare happened shortly afterward when he was bitten by a dog on the face. His sister,Grace Dyer Taylor died ofmeningitis nearHangzhou within the first year. When he was six the family was nearly killed by a rioting mob during theYangzhou riot in 1868. Finally in 1870 he was sent home with his surviving siblings withEmily Blatchley to live in London, separated from his parents. His mother died in China soon after they arrived home.Like his father, he enrolled in the
Royal London Hospital medical college. After two years he decided to return to China to become one of the charter teachers at the newly founded China Inland MissionChefoo School at (Yantai ). After marrying a fellow missionary, Jeanie Gray, they endured tumultuous years in China, including theBoxer Rebellion , the fall of theQing dynasty , the Warlord era, and theSecond Sino-Japanese War (1937).In 1930 the China Inland Mission published "“
Ren Ch'eng-Yüan , A Tamarisk Garden Blessed with Rain. Or the Autobiography of Pastor Ren. Translated and edited by Herbert Hudson Taylor & Marshall Broomhall”."At the age of 80 he was interned by the Japanese at the Weihsien or
Weifang concentration camp afterJapan had entered the war in 1941. Everyone at Weifang were liberated in 1945 by Americanparatroopers .Descendants of Herbert Hudson Taylor continue his full-time ministry today in the communities in
Hong Kong andTaiwan . Grandson,Rev. James Hudson Taylor III and his son Rev. James Hudson Taylor IV are now based in Hong Kong.Another of Herbert Taylor’s grandchildren isMary Previte who served in theNew Jersey General Assembly representing the 6th legislative district from 1998 to 2006.References
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Historical Bibliography of the China Inland Mission ee also
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Norman Howard Cliff External links
* [http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/ Weihsien-Paintings ] at www.weihsien-paintings.org
* [http://www.omf.org/ Overseas Missionary Fellowship]
* [http://www.genealogy.com/users/y/o/r/Brian-York-Burnsville/?Welcome=1091209026 Genealogy.com: The family of James Hudson Taylor ] at www.genealogy.comPersondata
NAME= Taylor, Herbert Hudson
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=missionary in China
DATE OF BIRTH=April 3 ,1861 –
PLACE OF BIRTH=London ,England
DATE OF DEATH=June 6 ,1950
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