William Swan (21 June 1791, in Leven, Fife – 18 January 1866) was a Scottish missionary in Siberia and one of the translators of the Bible into Mongolian...
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Baronet (1667–1712), of the Swan baronets William Swan (silversmith) (1715–1774), American silversmith William Swan (missionary) (1791–1866), translator...
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clergy for the Swan River Colony and, as a result, a society within the Church of England was formed called the Western Australian Missionary Society, later...
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Kitto 1830 – Church of Scotland missionary Alexander Duff arrives in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta); William Swan, missionary to Siberia, writes Letters on...
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1828. 1830 – Church of Scotland missionary Alexander Duff arrives in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta); William Swan, missionary to Siberia, writes Letters on...
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Mongolian was the work of Edward Stallybrass and William Swan (missionary) (1791–1866) both of the London Missionary Society (LMS), who translated the Old and...
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Rahmn [Wikidata] of Sweden, William Swan and Robert Yuille of Scotland. In 1818, the Society was renamed The London Missionary Society. In 1822, John Philip...
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19th-century missionary John Batchelor collected an etiological tale from the Ainu people, about the swan maiden. According to this story, the swan - originally...
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James Settee (category Anglican missionaries in Canada)
Winnipeg. In July 1854, Settee and the Revd. William Stagg were sent to the Fairford Mission in the Swan River district near Lake Manitoba. Settee was...
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1942–1948 William Mitchell (missionary) (1803–1870), Anglican priest who established religious services in the Swan River Colony William Mitchell (Scottish...
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Joseph Swan (11 November 1796 Manchester, England – 22 September 1872 Anderston, Scotland) was an engraver and publisher active in Glasgow in the early...
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William Knibb, OM (7 September 1803 in Kettering – 15 November 1845) was an English Baptist minister and missionary to Jamaica. He is chiefly known today...
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Felix Carey (category Baptist missionaries in India)
Carey (20 October 1786 – 10 December 1822) was a Baptist missionary, the eldest son of William Carey. He was involved in running the printing press of...
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Louis Giustiniani (category Anglican missionaries in Australia)
Louis (or Luis) Giustiniani was the first missionary to the Swan River Colony. He was outspoken in defending Aboriginal Australians, but in doing so alienated...
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Kaiser Company (Portland, Oregon), commonly known as the Swan Island Shipyard, was a shipyard on Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was constructed...
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Edward Stallybrass (category British missionary linguists)
for the LMS missionaries. From 1836 to 1840, they worked on translating scripture and publishing it at a mission press. In 1838, William Swan reported that...
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David Phillips and Howard Hunt. From a secret radio transmitter located on Swan Island, off the Honduran coast, Phillips and Hunt scripted and broadcast...
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John Smithies (category English Methodist missionaries)
John Smithies (1802–1872) was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary who served in Newfoundland, the Swan River Colony of Western Australia, and Tasmania. Born...
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William Childs Robinson (1897-1982), who taught church history and apologetics at Columbia Theological Seminary William Alderman Linton, missionary,...
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Swan Song of the Arunta is a 1952 Australian radio feature by William Hatfield based on Hatfield's book Desert Saga. Hatfield's book Desert Saga was published...
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James Wells Robson (category People from Swan River, Manitoba)
Party. Robson was born in Calcutta, India, the son of Dr. William Robson, a medical missionary from Edinburgh who entered the British Government's educational...
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2017 Swan G. Count Ivor Carlac Collectors' Digest #341, May 1975. p 11-12 Swan G. Count Ivor Carlac Collectors' Digest #341, May 1975. p 11 Swan G. Count...
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Joshua Marshman (category Missionary educators)
was a Baptist missionary in Bengal, India from 1799 until his death. He was a member of the Serampore trio with William Carey and William Ward. The trio...
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Ebenezer Baptist Church (redirect from Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church)
Chandler Harris (Wren's Nest) Alonzo F. Herndon (Herndon Home) Edward H. Inman (Swan House) Martin Luther King Jr. Ferdinand McMillan (The Castle) Margaret Mitchell...
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host, TV personality, founder of the National Action Network Talbert W. Swan II, bishop Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, author, former president of the Chicago...
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(on his mother's side). His mother was removed from his grandmother by missionaries soon after birth, so as a child he learnt more about his father's side...
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1890 – Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch-Brazilian priest and missionary (d. 1943) 1894 – William George Barker, Canadian pilot and colonel, Victoria Cross...
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Projectionist 1982 The Missionary Parswell Remembrance Douglas 1985 The Bride Paulus Dutch Girls Lyndon Baines Jellicoe 1986 Gothic Dr. John William Polidori 1987...
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nearby. The marsh provides habitat for trumpeter swans, black terns and least bitterns. The trumpeter swan is considered a symbol of Midland and a large...
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George Fowler (politician) (redirect from George Swan Fowler)
George Swan Fowler (9 March 1839 – 1 October 1896) was a South Australian politician and a Treasurer of South Australia. Fowler was born in Kilrenny, Fife...
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