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Stephen Charles Neill (1900–1984)〔Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions Page 488〕 was a Scottish Anglican missionary, bishop, and scholar. He was proficient in a number of languages, including Greek, Latin and Tamil. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge and fellow there before going as a missionary to Tamil Nadu, in British India, and became bishop of Tirunelveli in 1939. He believed in unification of all churches in South India and communion beyond denominations. He wrote several books on theology and church history. ==Early life== Neill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 31 December 1900 to Dr. Charles Neill and Dr. Margaret Penelope ("Daisy") Neill, the daughter of James Munro (for a time Commissioner (CID) at Scotland Yard who, having resigned at the age of 52 on disagreeing with the government, returned to India, where he had been a district officer, to establish a medical misison).〔Neill, Stephen (Jackson, E.M.(ed)) ''God's Apprentice: The Autobiography of Stephen Neill'' Hodder & Stoughton 1991, pp.18-21; p.26 & pp,24-5 respectively〕 Both his parents were missionary doctors in India but spent much of their adult lives in various European countries for reasons of health and for the sake of their children's education.〔 He had two sisters, Marjorie Penelope (1898) and Isabel Ruth (1906), and three brothers: Christopher Henry (1899), Gerald Munro (1902), Eric James (1904).〔 He was educated at Dean Close School,〔Neill, Stephen (Jackson, E.M.(ed)) ''God's Apprentice: The Autobiography of Stephen Neill'' Hodder & Stoughton 1991, p.28; pp.48-9, p.76; p.73; p.72 respectively〕 then in 1918 won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge and was elected to a fellowship in 1924.〔 While still in Cambridge he passed the Church of England's General Ordination Examination which qualified him for ordination〔 but he had decided to go out to India as a layman.〔 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「Stephen Neill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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