George Smith

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George Smith

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Why Is George Smith Influential?

According to Wikipedia, George Smith was a missionary in China and the Bishop of Victoria from 1849 to 1865, the first of this newly established diocese. Life Smith was born in Wellington, Somerset on 19 June 1815. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in classics from Magdalen Hall, Oxford in 1837 and was ordained in the Church of England. He was made deacon on 20 October 1839 by George Davys, Bishop of Peterborough and ordained priest in July 1840 by Charles Longley, Bishop of Ripon. He rapidly became involved in the Church Missionary Society and he and fellow priest Thomas McClatchie arrived in Shanghai on 25 September 1844 to establish a mission. Poor health forced an early return to England, but Smith's Narrative of his period in China was published in 1847.

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• University of Oxford