James Laidlaw Maxwell, Junior

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James Laidlaw Maxwell, Junior, (1876–August 12, 1951) was a pioneering modern English Presbyterian medical missionary to Taiwan and China. He was the son of James Laidlaw Maxwell, Senior.

J. Laidlaw Maxwell followed his father, and served in the Tainan hospital his father started from 1900 to 1923. In 1923, he was appointed secretary of the China Medical Missionary Association. He died of Malaria in Hangchow in 1951.

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• Then Till Now in Formosa; English and Canadian Presbyterian Missions in Formosa (Taiwan), 1953, Hugh Macmillan.