Harold Balme (, 28 May 1878 in Hackney, Middlesex, England - 13 February 1953 in London) was a British medical missionary to China. He served as president of

Cheeloo University Cheeloo University (, alternatively known as ''Shantung Christian College'') was a university in China, established by Hunter Corbett American Presbyterian, and other English Baptist, Anglican, and Canadian Presbyterian mission agencies in early ...

from 1921 to 1927.

Biography

Balme studied medicine at King's College and

King's College Hospital King's College Hospital is a major teaching hospital and major trauma centre in Denmark Hill, Camberwell in the London Borough of Lambeth, referred to locally and by staff simply as "King's" or abbreviated internally to "KCH". It is managed by K ...

.Obituary HAROLD BALME, OBE, MD, FRCS, British Medical Journal, Vol. 1, No. 4808, pg. 511-512, Feb. 28, 1953 He went to

Taiyuan Taiyuan (; ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ; also known as (), ()) is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. ...

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as a medical missionary in 1906. In 1913, he took a position as professor of surgery at

and superintendent of the University's hospital. Later, he was appointed dean of the university's medical school and president of the University in 1921.

Works

* Harold Balme, "Medical Missions in China", The Lancet, Vol. 198 No. 5119 pp 784–786, 1921 * Harold Balme, "China and Modern Medicine: A Study in Medical Missionary Development", London: United Council for Missionary Education, 1921. * Harold Balme, "The trend of medical mission policy in China, International Review of Mission", Volume 13, Issue 2, pages 247-257, April 1924.

References

1878 births 1953 deaths Alumni of King's College London English Protestant missionaries Protestant missionaries in China Officers of the Order of the British Empire Presidents of Cheeloo University Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Christian medical missionaries British expatriates in China People from Hackney Central {{china-med-bio-stub