Records of the Loochoo Naval Mission 1843-1857

Church Missionary Society.

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The Church Missionary Society was founded in 1799 by a small group of laymen and clergy of the Church of England. It was originally named the Society for Missions to Africa and the East. Its purpose was to enable the Church to send missionaries to Africa and other heathen areas. Henry M. Stanley, following his discovery of the missionary explorer, David Livingstone, was instrumental in opening the Uganda Mission. His famous letter, published in the Daily Telegraph in 1875, prompted a contributio...

Loochoo Naval Mission

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The Loochoo Naval Mission was begun in February 1843 by a small group of naval officers who wished to send a missionary to the Loochoo Islands (Ryukyu Islands) aiming thereby to reach Japan. When their application for help from the Church Missionary Society was refused, they set up an independent fund and sent out Dr. Bernard Jean Bettelheim. A chapter on and biography of Dr Bernard J. Bettelheim may be consulted in the publication by Edward E. Bollinger, The Cross and the Floating ...

Bettelheim Bernard Jean fl 1843

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Moreton G H fl 1843-1861

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