John Sutherland Whitewright (, 5 September 1858 in
Edinburgh
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– 10 January 1926 in
Tianjin
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) was a British Baptist missionary to China in the late 19th and early 20th century. He arrived in the city of
Qingzhou, Shandong province in 1880
[Huai Enguang (in Chinese)]
or in 1881.
In 1886, he started a theological college in Qingzhou that would later develop into Gotch-Robinson Theological College.
[ He directed the college with the assistance of Alfred G. Jones and J. Percy Bruce. In 1887, he established the Yidu Museum (named after the former Yidu County) in Qingzhou.][Shandong Museum official web site (in Chinese)]
/ref> In 1904, he moved with the museum to Jinan, where the museum became the Guangzhi Yuan
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The Guangzhi Yuan is linked to Shandong's o ...
. In 1917, he taught at the divinity school of Cheeloo University.[ His museum became a forerunner of the ]Shandong Provincial Museum
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The Shandong Museum occupies a building with 82,900 square meters of space ...
.
Works
*An introduction to Mandarin, published by T. Leslie at Kwang Hsueh Publishing House, 1922
*Pioneer museum work in China, Museums Journal, Feb., 1909, p. 266-77.
References
1858 births
1926 deaths
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