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William Burns Thomson
William Burns Thomson (1821 April 29, 1893) was a Scottish medical missionary born in Kirriemuir, Scotland to Christian parents. Thomson dedicated his life to the spread of the gospel and to medical missionary work. His work as part of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society( EMMS) transformed the organization from its focus on the slums of Scotland to an international missionary aid organization. During his time with EMMS, Dr. Thomson advocated for missionaries across the globe, including Dr. Kaloost Vartan of the Nazareth Hospital and Dr. William Jackson Elmslie in Kashmir. Dr. Thomson also served as a pioneer for medical missionary training by creating the original EMMS training school at the Cowgate dispensary. This led to more training schools being created in other parts of the world, like Bombay(now known as Mumbai) and Calcutta(now known as Kolkata), India. Early life Dr. Thomson was born in 1821 in Kirriemuir, Forfarshire in Scotland. His father was a merchant who d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirriemuir
Kirriemuir, sometimes called Kirrie or the ''Wee Red Toon'' ( gd, An Ceathramh Mòr; IPA: nˈkʰʲɛɾəvmoːɾ, is a burgh in Angus, Scotland. It reaches back to earliest recorded times, when it is thought to have been a major ecclesiastical centre. Later it was identified with witchcraft: some older houses still feature a " witches stane" to ward off evil. In the 19th century, it was a major centre of the jute trade. The playwright J. M. Barrie was born and buried here – a statue of Peter Pan stands in the town square. History The history of Kirriemuir extends back to the early historical period. It appears to have been a centre of ecclesiastical importance. Some of the Kirriemuir Sculptured Stones, a series of late Pictish cross slabs, are on display at the Meffan Institute in Forfar, and the others can be seen in the Kirriemuir Gateway to the Glens Museum which now occupies the Kirriemuir Town House. The lands of Ummarchie lay in the feudal barony of Kirriemure – th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMMS International
EMMS International is a non-denominational christian Non-governmental Organization (NGO) that provides medical aid to countries around the world and operates field offices in the UK, Malawi, India, Israel, and Nepal. Founded to provide clinical education to missionaries and medical aid to people in need in Scotland, it later expanded to the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa through sponsoring the construction of dispensaries and hospitals. Its educational mission expanded from training missionary physicians in Edinburgh to training local nurses and physicians in the countries where it works. EMMS continues to provide resource assistance at all its sites. Based in Scotland, its vision is "health for today, hope for tomorrow." Introduction In 1841, The Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society International (EMMS) was founded as the Edinburgh Association for Sending Medical Aid to Foreign Countries. In 1843, it was renamed as The Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society. During the 19t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaloost Vartan
Pacradooni Kaloost Vartan was the son of a poor Armenian tailor, he was born in Istanbul in 1835 and founded the Nazareth Hospital, the first hospital in Ottoman Galilee. Early life Vartan attended Constantinople's first American missionary school. He joined the British army, serving in the Crimea as an interpreter, but after witnessing the dreadful inadequacies of battlefield medical facilities he resolved to become a surgeon. Medical training and mission in Palestine After his initial Crimean experiences he traveled to Edinburgh where he trained as a doctor under the auspices of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society (EMMS). He married Mary Anne Stewart, a Scottish nurse, and immediately after the wedding he and his bride left for Palestine. Vartan's work was sponsored by the EMMS to whom he reported every quarter. With fundraising led by William Thomson, he was able to start the Nazareth Hospital. These documents provide valuable evidence of his struggle to set up the hosp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMMS Nazareth Hospital
The EMMS Nazareth Hospital, also known as Scottish Hospital and English Hospital, is the general hospital of the city of Nazareth, Israel. It was founded as a Christian mission by Dr. Kaloost Vartan and the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society in 1861. The hospital now houses 147 beds, employs over 500 staff, and receives over 50,000 visits annually. Background The Nazareth Hospital project was originally led by Dr. Pacradooni Kaloost Vartan with the fundraising support of William Thomson of the 39 Cowgate dispensary. Vartan, born in Constantinople to an Armenian family in 1835, he attended an American Protestant School for Armenian Boys. During the Crimean War, he served as an interpreter for British forces. There, he was moved and inspired by the poor conditions of war, and by the care provided at the hospitals run by Florence Nightingale. Vartan moved to Edinburgh, Scotland to study medicine. His studies were funded by the newly founded Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Jackson Elmslie
William Jackson Elmslie (29 June 1832 - 18 November 1872) was a Scottish Presbyterian doctor working primarily in Kashmir and the Punjab region in India from 1865 to 1872. Sponsored by the Church Missionary Society, Elmslie established Kashmir's first dispensary in Srinagar and later founded a small temporary hospital. Early life Personal life Elmslie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on 29 June 1832 to James and Barbara Elmslie. At the age of nine, Elmslie began learning boot closing, his father's trade, which he continued throughout his university years. Between trips to India, on 23 February 1872, Elmslie married Margaret Duncan, the daughter of a Scottish reverend. Following his sudden death a few months after their marriage, Margaret Duncan Elmslie worked in various orphanages in Amritsar, India until 1878. Elmslie learned Kashmiri, Persian, and Sanskrit.Mufti, Gulzar (2013). ''Kashmir in Sickness and in Health''. New Delhi: Partridge. p. 47. Education In 1848, Elmslie joine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter David Handyside
Peter David Handyside FRSE FRCSE (1808–1881) was a Scottish surgeon and anatomist. He was president of the Royal Medical Society in 1828. He won the Harveian Society Medal in 1827 and was its secretary in 1837. He was also president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh in 1871. Life Handyside was born at 16 South Frederick Street in Edinburgh’s New Town on 26 October 1808, the son of Jane Cuninghame and William Handyside WS (1746–1818), a lawyer. His elder brother Robert Handyside (1798–1858) rose to the top of the Scottish legal world, becoming Lord Handyside. He was apprenticed to the eminent surgeon James Syme to train as a doctor. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He then undertook postgraduate studies first in Paris and then in Heidelberg under the eminent physiologist Friedrich Tiedemann. He gained his doctorate (MD) from the University of Edinburgh in 1833. In 1833, he began lecturing in anatomy at the University of Edinburgh later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canongate
The Canongate is a street and associated district in central Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. The street forms the main eastern length of the Royal Mile while the district is the main eastern section of Edinburgh's Old Town. It began when David I of Scotland, by the Great Charter of Holyrood Abbey c.1143, authorised the Abbey to found a burgh separate from Edinburgh between the Abbey and Edinburgh. The burgh of Canongate that developed was controlled by the Abbey until the Scottish Reformation when it came under secular control. In 1636 the adjacent city of Edinburgh bought the feudal superiority of the Canongate but it remained a semi-autonomous burgh under its own administration of bailies chosen by Edinburgh magistrates, until its formal incorporation into the city in 1856. The burgh gained its name from the route that the canons of Holyrood Abbey took to Edinburgh—the canons' way or the canons' gait, from the Scots word ''gait'' meaning "way". In more modern time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Mission Society
The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly known as the Church Missionary Society, is a British mission society working with the Christians around the world. Founded in 1799, CMS has attracted over nine thousand men and women to serve as mission partners during its 200-year history. The society has also given its name "CMS" to a number of daughter organisations around the world, including Australia and New Zealand, which have now become independent. History Foundation The original proposal for the mission came from Charles Grant and George Uday of the East India Company and David Brown, of Calcutta, who sent a proposal in 1787 to William Wilberforce, then a young member of parliament, and Charles Simeon, a young clergyman at Cambridge University. The ''Society for Missions to Africa and the East'' (as the society was first called) was founded on 12 April 1799 at a meeting of the Eclectic Society, supported by members of the Clapham Sect, a group of activist Anglicans who met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Davidson (missionary)
Andrew Davidson may refer to: * Andrew Davidson (Army surgeon) (1819–1901), American soldier in the American Civil War * Andrew B. Davidson (1831–1902), Scottish professor of Hebrew and Oriental languages * Andrew Davidson (physician) (1836–1918), Scottish medical missionary and tropical medicine educator * Andrew Davidson (soldier) (1840–1902), Scottish soldier in the American Civil War * Andrew Davidson (footballer) (1878–1949), Scottish footballer with Middlesbrough, Bury, Grimsby Town and Southampton * Andrew Davidson (knight) (1892–1962), captain, footballer, knight, professor, public health official and royal physician * Andrew Davidson (educationalist) (1894–1982), New Zealand teacher and educationalist * Andrew Hope Davidson (1895–1967), professor of midwifery * Andrew Nevile Davidson (1899–1976), Church of Scotland minister * Andrew Davidson, 2nd Viscount Davidson (1928–2012), British peer and Conservative politician * Andrew Davidson (illustrator) (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Missionary Society
The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams. It was largely Reformed in outlook, with Congregational missions in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas, although there were also Presbyterians (notable for their work in China), Methodists, Baptists, and various other Protestants involved. It now forms part of the Council for World Mission. Origins In 1793, Edward Williams, then minister at Carr's Lane, Birmingham, wrote a letter to the churches of the Midlands, expressing the need for interdenominational world evangelization and foreign missions.Wadsworth KW, ''Yorkshire United Independent College -Two Hundred Years of Training for Christian Ministry by the Congregational Churches of Yorkshire'' Independent Press, London, 1954 It was effective and Williams began to play an active part in the plans for a missionary society. He left Birmingham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Macqueen
Kenneth Robertson Macqueen (15 April 1897 – 21 June 1960) was an Australian farmer and artist, known for watercolors. History Macqueen was born in Ballarat, a son of William Sweyn Macqueen DD. (c. 1860 – 1 November 1914), a Presbyterian minister, and Rachel Cecilia "Ray" Macqueen, née Robertson, later of Vaucluse Road, Vaucluse. Dr Macqueen was, in 1907, moderator of the General Assembly of Queensland. He was educated at Bowen House School, and, after the family moved to New South Wales, Scots College, Sydney. He also took drawing lessons from Alfred Coffey. In February 1916 he enlisted with the First AIF and served in France. On his return to Australia he took up farming at Mount Emlyn near Millmerran, in the Darling Downs region of Queensland. In 1926 he married Olive Crane (1895–1935), a well-known artist, and together painted in their spare time. Art historian Alan McCulloch observes that he was one the first Australian artists to paint watercolors in the modern style ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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