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William Lockhart Papers

Papers, 1839-1863, of William Lockhart, comprising two volumes containing his personal expenses accounts, 1839-1857; notebook, c1845, largely containing Chinese texts, also including notes in English on subjects including Chinese measurements, trades, guilds, religion, and other customs; Chinese pas...

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Order number:	CWM/LMS/China/Personal/Box 16
Date(s) of creation:	1839-1863
Level:	Sub-series
Format:	Archive
Main author:	Lockhart; William (1811-1896); physician and medical missionary
Subjects:	Asian cultures Cultural heritage Customs and traditions Guilds Measurement Medicine Medical personnel Doctors Metrology Missionaries Missionary work Physicians Protestantism Protestants Travel abroad

collection	SOAS Archive
id	CWM.LMS.20.03.07
recordtype	archive
scb_item_location	Archive & Special Collections
item_location	Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type	Reference only
scb_order_with	CWM/LMS/China/Personal/Box 16
callnumber	CWM/LMS/20/03/07
callnumber_txt	CWM/LMS/20/03/07
callnumber-sort	CWM/LMS/20/03/07
prefix_number	07
title	William Lockhart Papers
scb_date_creation	1839-1863
scb_level	Sub-series
level_sort	7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent	3 volumes, 1 folder
author	Lockhart; William (1811-1896); physician and medical missionary
author_facet	Lockhart; William (1811-1896); physician and medical missionary
authorStr	Lockhart; William (1811-1896); physician and medical missionary
author_letter	Lockhart; William (1811-1896); physician and medical missionary
format	Archive
scb_admin_history	Born in Liverpool, England, 1811; trained at the Meath Hospital, Dublin, and Guy's Hospital, London; member of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1834; appointed London Missionary Society (LMS) medical missionary to Canton and, as such, was the first British medical missionary; sailed to Batavia (Jakarta) and proceeded to Canton, 1838; travelled to Macau, where he opened a hospital, but government hostility compelled him to leave, 1839; returned to Macau, 1840; in accordance with an arrangement between the American and London missionaries, left Macau for Tinghae, where he started work, 1840; returned to Macau and married Catherine Parkes (d 1918), 1841; went via Hong Kong to Chusan (Chou-san, Zhoushan), 1842; proceeded to Shanghai and opened the first Shanghai hospital, 1843; elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1857; travelled to England, 1857-1858; left England for China, intending to open the first missionary hospital at Peking (Beijing), 1861; visited Hankow and Japan and returned to England, 1864; director of the LMS; retired from LMS foreign service, 1867; elected Chairman of the LMS Board of Directors, 1869-1870; President of the newly-formed Medical Missionary Association, London, 1878; presented his books on China to the LMS, 1892; advocated a strict separation between the roles of preacher and physician; died at Blackheath, 1896. Publications: The Medical Missionary in China (1861); translations from Chinese medical works; contributions to the Royal Asiatic Society Record.
scb_custodial_history	The papers were deposited with the London Missionary Society and form part of the special series of personal papers of individual LMS missionaries and officers.
scb_acquisition	Deposited on permanent loan with the records of the London Missionary Society by the Congregational Council for World Mission (later Council for World Mission) in 1973.
description	Papers, 1839-1863, of William Lockhart, comprising two volumes containing his personal expenses accounts, 1839-1857; notebook, c1845, largely containing Chinese texts, also including notes in English on subjects including Chinese measurements, trades, guilds, religion, and other customs; Chinese passport, 1863.
scb_related_name_code	GB/NNAF/P166102
scb_related_name_relationship	Creator of
scb_place_code	1814991 7729894
scb_access_status	Open
language	English Chinese
language_search	English Chinese
scb_finding_aids	Unpublished handlist
scb_copies	Published on microfiche by IDC Publishers
scb_related_material	The School of Oriental and African Studies holds records of the London Missionary Society (Ref: CWM/LMS), including letters from individual missionaries, among them Lockhart (Ref: CWM/LMS North China Incoming Correspondence, CWM/LMS Central China Incoming Correspondence, CWM/LMS South China Incoming Correspondence); his candidate's papers (Ref: CWM/LMS Candidates' Papers Box 10 No 20); portraits of him and his wife, including photographs and an engraving (Ref: CWM/LMS Missionary Portraits Box 3); photographs, 1861-1867, of Korea and China, acquired by Lockhart (Ref: CWM/LMS China Photographs Box 13 File 79). SOAS also holds transcripts of correspondence of Lockhart and his family and a typescript biography of Lockhart (Ref: MS 380645).
scb-callnumber-first	Asian cultures Cultural heritage Customs and traditions Guilds Measurement Medicine Medical personnel Doctors Metrology Missionaries Missionary work Physicians Protestantism Protestants Travel abroad
topic	Asian cultures Cultural heritage Customs and traditions Guilds Measurement Medicine Medical personnel Doctors Metrology Missionaries Missionary work Physicians Protestantism Protestants Travel abroad
topic_facet	Asian cultures Cultural heritage Customs and traditions Guilds Measurement Medicine Medical personnel Doctors Metrology Missionaries Missionary work Physicians Protestantism Protestants Travel abroad
hierarchy_top_id_raw	CWM
hierarchy_sequence	CWM.00LMS.0020.0003.0007

William Lockhart Papers

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