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John Shaw Burdon〔(NPG details )〕 (; 18265January 1907) was a British Christian missionary to China with the Church Mission Society who in time became a bishop.〔(Archive.Org )〕 ==Life== Burdon was ordained to the priesthood by the Bishop of London in December 1852;〔‘BURDON, Rt Rev. John Shaw’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 (accessed 17 Sept 2013 )〕 and resigned in 1896.〔''Ecclesiastical Intelligence'' The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Aug 04, 1896; pg. 3; Issue 34960〕 He opposed Britain's part in the Anglo-Chinese First and Second Opium Wars. 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 of the young Hudson Taylor. He married Harriet Ann, whom he lost to illness in 1854 in Shanghai.〔Ellison, E. S.; ''Shantung Road Cemetery 1846-1868''.〕 His second marriage in 1857 was to Burella Hunter Dyer, the daughter of missionary Rev.Samuel Dyer.〔"The Gentlemen's Magazine" July–December, 1858, p. 646.〕 She died the following year of cholera, also in Shanghai. His third wife 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.〔Broomhall (1983), 443〕 He died at Bedford on 5 January 1907, and was buried at Royston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Burdon (bishop)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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