John Burdon (bishop)

John Shaw Burdon (simplified Chinese: 包尔腾; traditional Chinese: 包爾騰; 1826–5 January 1907) was a British Christian missionary to China with the Church Mission Society. Burdon was ordained to the priesthood by the Bishop of London in December 1852. He opposed Britain's part in the Opium Wars in China. In March 1874 he was consecrated bishop of the South China Diocese of the Anglican Church in Victoria and Hong Kong. Burdon was a translator with Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky of the Book of Common Prayer.

Burdon was a friend and fellow travelling evangelist with the young Hudson Taylor and was briefly his brother-in-law. Burdon's first marriage in 1857 was to Burella Dyer, the daughter of the late missionary Samuel Dyer. She died the following year in Shanghai of cholera. His second and third wives also predeceased him.

The school, named Tong Wen Guan, was officially opened on 11 June 1862 and Burdon was hired as the first English instructor.^[1]

Bibliography

• Old Testament Manual
• Christian Joy: A Sermon, Preached in the London Mission Chapel, Shanghai, 25th November 1858, the Last Thursday in the Month, Usually Observed in the United States of America as Thanksgiving Day (1858)
• The Chinese Term for God: A Letter to the Protestant Missionaries of China (1877)
• Colloquial Versions of the Chinese Scriptures: A Paper to be read at the Shanghai Missionary Conference (1890)

References

• Broomhall, Alfred (1983). Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: Over The Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 
• John S. Burdon 1826 – 1907

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