Bishops of Lahore - Thomas Valpy French, George Barne, Laurence Henry Woolmer, Henry Bickersteth Durant, Bishop of Lahore (Paperback)

Chapters: Thomas Valpy French, George Barne, Laurence Henry Woolmer, Henry Bickersteth Durant, Bishop of Lahore. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thomas Valpy French (January 1, 1825 - May 14, 1891), was an English Christian Missionary in India and Persia, who became the first Bishop of Lahore, in 1877, and also founded the St. John's College, Agra, in 1853 . After Henry Martyn, he is considered the second most important Christian missionary to the Middle East Thomas Valpy French was born on New Year's Day on 1825, in Abbey, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. His father, Rev. Peter French, was vicar of Holy Trinity Church for forty-seven years, and he grew up in the house, which was once part of the Benedictine Abbey, on the banks of the River Trent . He started his schooling at Reading Grammar School, and at age fourteen, he joined the Rugby School. In 1843, he won a scholarship to Oxford and started studying at the University College, Oxford, where he was made a fellow in 1848 . It was at Oxford that he first felt called to mission in India . On April 16, 1850, he joined the missionary service of Church Missionary Society, and was sent to Agra, India. He set sail to India on East Indian Queen on September 11, 1850 and reached Calcutta on January 2, 1851. Soon he headed off to Agra, where he was appointed for educational work. He founded the St. John's College at Agra, which formally opened in 1953, though he had started taking classes in small room with ten boys, while the college building was being built. The college was named as St. John's, after the college of another noted missionary, Henry Martyn (1781 -1812) at Cambridge . He also learnt seven languages, including Hindustani, Punjabi, Urdu, Persian, Pashto and Arabic to proper...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=17304047