James Laidlaw Maxwell Jr
James Laidlaw Maxwell Jr. (Chinese: 馬雅各二世, 1876 – 12 August 1951) was a pioneering modern English Presbyterian medical missionary to Formosa (Taiwan) and China. He was the son of James Laidlaw Maxwell Sr.
Maxwell worked in the Sin-lâu Hospital in Tainan, which his father ran from 1900 to 1923. In 1923, he was appointed secretary of the China Medical Missionary Association. He died of malaria in Hangchow in 1951.
References
- Hugh MacMillan (1953). Then Till Now in Formosa. English and Canadian Presbyterian Missions in Formosa. OL 16996587M.
Christian missionaries in Taiwan | |||||
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| 17th century |
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| 1850–1945 | |||||
| Since 1945 | (* = Latter-day Saints Church) | ||||
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