Dixon Edward Hoste

Dixon Edward Hoste (23 July 1861 – 11 May 1946) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China and the longest lived of the Cambridge Seven. He became the successor to James Hudson Taylor as general director of the China Inland Mission from 1902 to 1935.

Life Hoste was born in 1861 as the son of Major General Dixon Edward Hoste. He was educated at Clifton College and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and at age 18 was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. In 1882 he experienced a Christian conversion under the influence of Dwight L. Moody.

The Cambridge SevenIn 1883 he became interested in the work of the China Inland Mission (CIM) and was the first of the Cambridge Seven to apply to work with this mission.

In 1893, he married Gertrude Broomhall, daughter of CIM General Secretary Benjamin Broomhall and his wife Amelia (Taylor's sister). Because of ill-health Hoste visited England in 1896 and then spent some time in Australia before returning to China. He became the general director of the CIM in 1902 and held that role until 1935. After the war, he returned to England, where he died in 1946 at the Mildmay Nursing Home. He is buried in Islington Cemetery, London. His wife had died in Shanghai on 12 April 1944.

Works 36 Steps to Christian Leadership (1999) If I am to Lead (1968) The Insight of a Seer: Selections from the Writings of Hudson Taylor's Successor Why I Have Joined the Bible Union of China (1921)

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