William Cadman (

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4 April 1883 –

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, 7 December 1948) was an English missionary in

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with his American wife Grace. William and his team printed the Bible in

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, and his wife Grace was the primary translator of the Bible into Vietnamese, along with John Drange Olsen. The main Protestant version in use in Vietnam today is the "Cadman version."''Kinh-Thánh: cựu-ước và tân-ước'' (Cadman version), Bible Society in Vietnam – reprint 1975 Cadman was a printer by profession who after conversion to Christianity left England for theological school in Canada then America. He enrolled to be a missionary in China but from there visited Vietnam where he met an American born nurse Grace Hazenberg. They married in 1915, and had one daughter who died in Hanoi. The couple ran a printing shop in Hanoi from 1917 until 1942 when they were interned by the Japanese at

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. They were the only couple to remain after the war. Grace Cadman died on 24 April 1946 at the age of 69 and was buried at Mạc Đĩnh Chi Cemetery, Saigon. Cadman died in Dalat, on Sunday, 7 December, and was buried there. The grave has recently been restored by the local Protestant church.

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Photo of the Cadmans
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cadman, William 1883 births 1948 deaths Protestant missionaries in Vietnam Translators of the Bible into Vietnamese English Protestant missionaries Burials at Mac Dinh Chi Cemetery British expatriates in Vietnam 20th-century translators Missionary linguists