Grace Stott

Grace Stott, born Grace Cigie (12 March 1845 – 24 January 1922), was a British Protestant missionary in China. She went to China after a marriage proposal arrived in the post. She worked in Wenzhou where she created a school for girls. Her husband George Stott died in 1899. She then returned to China. The mission was struck by riots twice and a cholera epidemic. She became the head of the mission and finally left the mission in 1909 twenty years after he was sacked and his death. Her husband is credited with the mission's success.

Life She was born in 1845 and brought up in Glasgow by her grandmother, who died. At sixteen she was an enthusiastic Christian with no home ties. She wanted to be a missionary in China after hearing Hudson Taylor speak in Glasgow. She was accepted to go until she fell ill. When the large Lammermuir Party sailed she was left behind on the dock. The opportunity passed her by and she was moved to establish a more domestic mission to the red light districts of Glasgow. Another source says that although wife and his followers learnt to handle his manner which could be direct. He increasingly came into conflict with Hudson Taylor and he had offered to resign in a protest letter. The CIM stopped sending recruits to his station and eventually they "let him go".

George had cancer and they returned to Scotland. George died in 1879 in Cannes where they had gone as a guest of a supporter of their work. After the publication she returned again to Wenzhou until she retired in 1907.

Stott died in Toronto in 1922.

Legacy Wenzhou is known in China as the “Jerusalem of the East” because in the entire Wenzhou Municipality, which has 6 million inhabitants, there are more than 600,000 evangelical Protestants – 10% of the population.