George Evans Moule (January 28, 1828,

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– March 3, 1912, Auckland Castle) was an Anglican missionary in China and the first Anglican bishop of mid-China.

Biography

He was the second of eight sons of Henry Moule, an inventor and the vicar of Fordington,

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and his wife Mary Mullett Moule née Evans. He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1850. He was made a Doctor of Divinity in 1880 and in 1905 was made an honorary Fellow of the college. In 1857 he was accepted by the

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and arrived in

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in 1858. In 1861 he was joined there by his brother Arthur Evans Moule. They survived the

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, and in 1864 he began missionary work in Hangchow (Hangzhou), remaining there until 1874. In 1880 he was made Bishop of Mid-China, with the seat of the diocese at Hangchow. He was known to develop Chekiang (Zhejiang) into a strong diocese. He resigned as bishop in 1907, and returned to England in 1911, to die the next year at the residence of his younger brother Handley Moule, the Bishop of Durham.

Family

Moule and his wife Adelaide had seven children, four of whom (George Moule, C. F. Moule, Henry W. Moule, and Arthur C. Moule) survived him. Their daughter Adelaide Mary Moule (1859-1901) also worked as a missionary in China,''The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal'', Volume 33, Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai, 1902, p. 27 as did their sons Henry and Arthur and another daughter, Jane F. Moule. Arthur C. Moule (1873-1957) became a noted sinologist, serving as Professor of Chinese at Cambridge 1933–1938.

References

External links

a short bio of Moule, with pictures
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge English Anglican missionaries British expatriates in China 1828 births 1912 deaths 19th-century Anglican bishops in China 20th-century Anglican bishops in China Anglican missionary bishops in China Anglican bishops of Chekiang {{Anglican-bishop-stub