Rev Thomas Cryer biography

Draft manuscript biography of Thomas Cryer with extracts from his letters and journal. Numerous corrections, annotations and amendments with a few sections in note form only.

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Order number: MMS/Special Series/Biographical/India/FBN 21 (fiche 934)
Date(s) of creation: n.d.
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title Rev Thomas Cryer biography
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scb_admin_history Thomas Cryer was born at Gilstead near Bingley, Yorkshire, on 6 April 1800. He converted to Methodism aged 20 and was accepted for the ministry in 1828 and served in Witney, Oxfordshire and Reading, Berkshire. In 1829 he was appointed to work in India and reached Madras [Chennai] in May 1830. He initially worked in Bangalore [Bengaluru] but also served in Madras [Chennai], Negapatam [Nagapattinam], Manargoody [Mannargudi] and Bangalore [Bengaluru] again before departing to England in 1839. During this period of service in India he had learnt Tamil and frequently preached in both English and Tamil. He was a strong critic of the caste system as he viewed it has hindering both his evangelical work as well as educational work. He served in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, for a couple of years and took part in a missionary deputation to Ireland in the spring of 1841 before returning to India onboard the 'General Kyd' in June 1842. With him was Mary Burton (born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, in 1811) whom he had married on 3 February 1842 in Leeds. Unfortunately within 14 months Mary died of cholera at Manargoody [Mannargudi] in December 1843. Rev Cryer continued to work at Manargoody [Mannargudi] until he transferred to Negapatam in 1847 and later Bangalore [Bengaluru] in 1849. Upon returning from a furlough to England he had taken in 1851 he became ill with cholera and died suddenly on 5th October 1852 in Madras [Chennai]. Further reading: Barrett, A, Holy living: exemplified in the life of Mrs. Mary Cryer, wife of the Revd. Thos. Cryer, Wesleyan missionary in the south of India, with extracts from her papers and correspondence (1845); Cryer, T, Family recollections: being a memoir of a beloved sister, with notices of other departed relatives (1843); Findlay & Holdsworth, The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (vol V, 1924).
description Draft manuscript biography of Thomas Cryer with extracts from his letters and journal. Numerous corrections, annotations and amendments with a few sections in note form only.
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scb_copyright Copyright probably held by Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
scb_use_restrictions For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance
language English
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scb_related_material Also within the records of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society is the official correspondence for Thomas Cryer (MMS/India/Correspondence/Madras/FBN 21-22). Further information on Cryer's work, as well as the work of his colleagues, will be contained in the relevant Synod Minutes (MMS/India/Synod Minutes/FBN 1). An image of Cryer can be found within MMS Box 1203.
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