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    James Laidlaw Maxwell Senior (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Má Ngá-kok; Chinese: 馬雅各; born 18 March 1836 in Scotland – March 1921) was the first Presbyterian missionary...
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  • 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)...
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  • proponent of Maxwell's equations James Maxwell (colonial administrator) (1869–1932), British physician and colonial administrator James Laidlaw Maxwell Jr (1876–1951)...
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  • Preston Maxwell (5 December 1871 – 25 July 1961), son of James Laidlaw Maxwell, was a Presbyterian obstetric missionary to China. John Preston Maxwell was...
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  • Presbyterian Church in Taiwan was started in the 19th century by James Laidlaw Maxwell of the Presbyterian Church of England in Southern Taiwan, and George...
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  • George Leslie Mackay – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan James Laidlaw Maxwell – among the first modern missionaries to Taiwan Robert Morrison...
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    lobbied the British Parliament to stop the opium trade. He and James Laidlaw Maxwell appealed to the London Missionary Conference of 1888 and the Edinburgh...
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    lobbied the British parliament to ban the opium trade. Broomhall and James Laidlaw Maxwell appealed to the London Missionary Conference of 1888 and the Edinburgh...
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    majority of the island's aborigines). English Presbyterian Missionary James Laidlaw Maxwell established the first Presbyterian church in Tainan in 1865. His...
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    Rulers of Taiwan Thomas Barclay (missionary) George Leslie Mackay James Laidlaw Maxwell Architecture of Taiwan Taipei 101 Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Chung-Shan...
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    first Presbyterian mission started in 1865, with the arrival of James Laidlaw Maxwell of the Presbyterian Church of England in Taiwan-fu (Tainan). His...
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  • James Laidlaw Maxwell in 1865. Maxwell was the father of two notable medical missionaries to China, Profs. James Preston Maxwell and James Laidlaw Maxwell...
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    arriving in Taiwan on December 29, 1871. After consulting with Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell Sr., a medical doctor serving as a Presbyterian Church of England...
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    Consulting-Surgeon, 1891–1912 Ivan Magill, anaesthetist, 1921- James Laidlaw Maxwell, Physician Shantilal Jamnadas Mehta, Indian surgeon and Padma Bhushan...
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    lobbied the British Parliament to stop the opium trade. He and James Laidlaw Maxwell appealed to the London Missionary Conference of 1888 and the Edinburgh...
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  • Labours 1865 – The China Inland Mission is founded by James Hudson Taylor; James Laidlaw Maxwell plants first viable church in Taiwan. Salvation Army founded...
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    the Pe̍h-ōe-jī orthography was by the first missionary to Taiwan, James Laidlaw Maxwell, with the New Testament Lán ê Kiù-chú Iâ-so͘ Ki-tok ê Sin-iok published...
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  • Disappointment 1865 – The China Inland Mission is founded by James Hudson Taylor; James Laidlaw Maxwell plants first viable church in Taiwan. Salvation Army founded...
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    He went on to visit the island of Taiwan with the missionary Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell, landing first in Takau in early April 1871. The pair visited the...
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    great boon to the promotion of POJ in Taiwan came in 1880 when James Laidlaw Maxwell, a medical missionary based in Tainan, started promoting POJ for...
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  • 21 February – Alexander Dickson, botanist (died 1887) 18 March – James Laidlaw Maxwell, Presbyterian missionary in Taiwan (died 1921) 31 March – William...
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  • Mayday (Taiwanese band) - Mayor of New Taipei - Mayor of Taipei - James Laidlaw Maxwell - Mazu (goddess) - MC HotDog - Media in Taiwan - Mega International...
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  • Sunshine and Shade, Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1926 Sibree, James, Register of LMS Missionaries, 1796–1923, London: LMS, 1923 Wylie, Alexander...
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    Presbyterian Church of England to be stationed in Taiwan-fu, after James Laidlaw Maxwell, Hugh Ritchie, William Campbell and Matthew Dickson. He was responsible...
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    number of ministers to Taiwan. The first of these ministers was James Laidlaw Maxwell, who settled in the city of Takau on May 29, 1865. The presence...
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    aborigines in the area. He was a contemporary of Thomas Barclay, James Laidlaw Maxwell and George Leslie Mackay, who were all engaged in missionary work...
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  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī) would be easier to learn and print than Chinese characters. James Laidlaw Maxwell, a medical missionary, donated a small printing press to the church...
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  • Council of Wales & Monmouthshire. For public services in Wales. James Laidlaw Maxwell, a British subject resident in Hankow, General Secretary of the...
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    lobbied the British Parliament to stop the opium trade. He and James Laidlaw Maxwell appealed to the London Missionary Conference of 1888 and the Edinburgh...
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    thirty-nine years to Roberta Remsen Laidlaw before their divorce in 1985. The couple had five children: Malcolm S. Jr., Robert Laidlaw, Christopher Charles, Timothy...
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