Frederick W. Baller

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Frederick William Baller Missionary to China Born November 21, 1852 England Died August 12, 1922 England

Frederick William Baller (November 21, 1852 – August 12, 1922) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, Chinese linguist, and sinologist.

Contents 1 Missionary Career 2 Writing Career 3 See also 4 References 4.1 Notes 4.2 Further Reading 4.3 External links

[edit] Missionary Career

He was one of the first students of the Missionary Institute established in the East End of London by Henry Grattan Guinness.

Baller applied to the China Inland Mission, and left England on September 3, 1873 with Charles Henry Judd, M. Henry Taylor, and Mary Bowyer. They arrived at Shanghai on November 5, 1873. The following year, he and Mary Bowyer were married at Shanghai on September 17, 1874. Mary was a veteran missionary to China from the beginning of the China Inland Mission, who had ventured out with Hudson Taylor on the Lammermuir (clipper) in 1866. She had been baptized by Taylor, along with some others, en route at the Straits of Sunda. In China, Baller was appointed superintendent of missions in Anhui and Jiangsu with the China Inland Mission. He went to Shanxi in 1876 with George King to distribute famine relief. Again, due to the continued famine in 1878 he returned to Shanxi with Jane Elizabeth Faulding (Mrs. Hudson Taylor), the single women missionaries Horne and Crickmay. Baller took a China Inland Mission party through Hunan, facing antiforeign opposition, to Guiyang in 1880, visiting the capital of Guizhou. He was appointed secretary to the first China Inland Mission China Council in 1885.

[edit] Writing Career

In 1887 he began his extensive literary work. He became a member of the Union Mandarin Bible Revision Committee at Beijing, for the New Testament in 1907, and the Old Testament 1907-1918.

After the death of his first wife, Baller married H. B. Fleming on January 23, 1912.

Due to his work with the Chinese language, in 1915 he was made a Life Governor of the British and Foreign Bible Society; he was also a vice president of the National Bible Society of Scotland; and a Life Member of the American Bible Society. In 1919 Baller went on furlough after nineteen years, of uninterrupted service in China.

[edit] See also

• List of China Inland Mission missionaries in China
• List of Protestant missionaries in China
• Christianity in China
• Xi Shengmo
• Benjamin Broomhall

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

[edit] Further Reading

• Historical Bibliography of the China Inland Mission

[edit] External links

• Overseas Missionary Fellowship
• http://www.genealogy.com/users/y/o/r/Brian-York-Burnsville/?Welcome=1091209026

Persondata
NAME	Baller, Frederick William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baller, F. W.
SHORT DESCRIPTION	missionary in China
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	England
DATE OF DEATH	August 12, 1922
PLACE OF DEATH