Thomas William Pearce
British translator and missionary in Hong Kong
About Thomas William Pearce
Lived 1855 – 1938 (aged 82–83). Thomas William Pearce was a British translator, missionary and cleric.
Thomas William Pearce (1855–1938) was an English missionary of the London Missionary Society in China.
Pearce arrived at Canton in 1879, and was connected with missionary work there until 1893, when was transferred to Hong Kong. He received an O.B.E. for his services as one of a committee of five responsible for the revision of the Chinese Bible. He was also one of the first to receive the degree of L.L.D. from Hong King University. He died at Withycombe, Exmouth, in 1938, aged 83.
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Who was Thomas William Pearce?
British translator and missionary in Hong Kong
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Thomas William Pearce was born in 1855 in Lemsford.
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Thomas William Pearce died on 1 February 1938 in Exmouth.
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Thomas William Pearce was a translator, missionary and cleric.
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Thomas William Pearce was British.
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