Herbert Hudson Taylor (3 April 1861 – 6 June 1950),

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, author, speaker and eldest son of

James Hudson Taylor James Hudson Taylor (; 21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905) was a British Baptist Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM, now OMF International). Taylor spent 51 years in China. The society that he began was respons ...

, founder of the

China Inland Mission OMF International (formerly Overseas Missionary Fellowship and before 1964 the China Inland Mission) is an international and interdenominational Evangelical Christian missionary society with an international centre in Singapore. It was founded i ...

and Maria Jane Dyer. He served there for over 50 years – the last three as one of the prisoners of the Japanese at the

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internment camp during

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along with

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and 1500 others. Herbert Taylor was four when his father founded the China Inland Mission. He had been born in

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during his parents’ first furlough in England together. At the time of his birth, they were living with his aunt and uncle Amelia and

Benjamin Broomhall Benjamin Broomhall (15 August 1829 – 29 May 1911) was a British advocate of foreign missions, administrator of the China Inland Mission, and author. Broomhall served as the General Secretary of the China Inland Mission (CIM), (from 1878 to 1895 ...

at 63 Westbourne Grove, in

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. In 1866 at the age of five Herbert and his parents, three siblings and sixteen other missionaries sailed to China aboard the

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as part of the famous

Lammermuir Party The Lammermuir Party was a British group of Protestant missionaries who travelled to China in 1866 aboard the tea clipper ''Lammermuir'', accompanied by James Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission. Mission historians have indicat ...

. During the four-month-long voyage the ship was nearly wrecked by two

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. On arrival in China, the family adopted Chinese clothing and food and set off to find a place to establish a mission center in

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. On the way, Herbert almost drowned when he fell overboard into the

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during their travels. Another scare happened shortly afterward when he was bitten by a dog on the face. His sister,

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died of

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near

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within the first year. When he was six the family was nearly killed by a rioting mob during the

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in 1868. Finally in 1870 he was sent home with his surviving siblings with

Emily Blatchley Emily Blatchley (c. 1842 – 26 July 1874) was a British Protestant Christianity, Christian missionary to China with the China Inland Mission. She pioneered the work of single women missionaries in China and served as personal secretary to the fou ...

to live in London, separated from his parents. His mother died in China soon after they arrived home. Like his father, he enrolled in the

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medical college. After two years he decided to return to China to become one of the charter teachers at the newly founded China Inland Mission

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at (

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). After marrying a fellow missionary, Jeanie Gray, they endured tumultuous years in China, including the

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, the fall of the

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, the Warlord era, and the

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(1937). In 1930 the China Inland Mission published "'' Ren Ch'eng-Yüan, A Tamarisk Garden Blessed with Rain. Or the Autobiography of Pastor Ren. Translated and edited by Herbert Hudson Taylor & Marshall Broomhall.''" At the age of 80 he was interned by the Japanese at the Weihsien or

concentration camp after

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had entered the war in 1941. Everyone at Weifang were liberated in 1945 by American

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. Descendants of Herbert Hudson Taylor continued his full-time ministry today in the communities in

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and

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. Grandson, the late Rev.

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(1929–2009) and his son Rev. James Hudson Taylor IV in Taiwan. Another of Herbert Taylor’s grandchildren is

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who served in the

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representing the 6th legislative district from 1998 to 2006.

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Weihsien-Paintings

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20th-century English medical doctors

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