John Hands (5 December 1780 – 30 June 1864 in

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) was a missionary of the

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 miss ...

in India and, with William Reeve, translator of one of the first

Bible translations into Kannada The first attempt to translate Bible into Kannada was by the Serampore missionaries and they appear to have it completed by 1809. However this manuscript was lost in the 1812 fire at the Serampore press. Some parts of the Bible were translated int ...

(1820). Hands founded the mission station in

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in 1810, after having failed to establish a base at

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.Missionary register: Volume 7 - Page 37 Church Missionary Society - 1819 BELLARY. A Town in the Mysore. 1810. John Hands, William Reeve, Joseph Taylor. There are Seven Native Schools at this Station, containing about 300 Children. The Scriptures are taught in them all. It is intended to establish more.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hands, John 1780 births 1864 deaths Translators of the Bible into Kannada 19th-century translators