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English missionary

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 [zh] 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 Hangzhou in 1951.

References

  • Hugh MacMillan (1953). Then Till Now in Formosa. English and "Canadian Presbyterian Missions in Formosa." OL 16996587M.

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