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Thomas Barclay (missionary)

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402: 364: 390: 376: 324:(loyal to the departed Qing) was declared. The Japanese treated any such resistance harshly and looked set to make an example of Tainan as the former capital. With forces from both sides arrayed to fight, Barclay emerged from the city to mediate with the Japanese, persuading the defenders to surrender and the invaders against taking punitive measures. Barclay's services in the 769: 189:
for his authorship of a scientific treatise on "the Specific Inductive Capacity of Dielectrics". He was the first student to graduate in the new Gilmorehill hall of Glasgow University, after which he studied at the Free Church Divinity College with his friends
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in 1932. Both volumes are still in print today, and have a reputation for elegance and accuracy, although due to both the passage of time and the fact that the church dialect is rather removed from everyday speech, the prose can sound strange to modern ears.
238:(Taiwan). He would later joke that he was chosen over Gibson for Formosa because of his longer legs, the better to navigate the hillier country in southern Taiwan. In 1885, after a year spent in Amoy learning the 1313: 732: 956: 1268: 1331: 1607: 320:
and relinquished all claim to it. In the resulting power vacuum before Japanese troops arrived to take over control, a fledgling resistance movement sprang up and a
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a few weeks before his 15th birthday (his young age not being unusual in those days). While there he excelled at mathematics and science, studying under
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Barclay is buried alongside several other missionaries in the Presbyterian section of a public cemetery in the southern part of
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Barclay was also responsible for overseeing the translation of the Bible from English into Taiwanese, first the
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ancestry for the family. The younger Barclay was an able student, and matriculated at
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were recognised by the Japanese by the award of a medal from the emperor.
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Chinese-English dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy
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Supplement to Dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy
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Supplement to Dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy
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romanisation. Barclay married Elisabeth Turner, in England, in 1892.
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the three became known as the "Glasgow Three" (in reference to the
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His other major contribution to the study of the language was the
222:, brother of the principal of the college and missionary in Amoy ( 610: 563:"The Taiwanese 台灣人 Tâi-Oân Lâng: Rev. Dr. Thomas Barclay 巴克禮 博士" 938: 714: 262:. He was responsible for introducing the first newsletter in 1314:
List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953)
340:. His congregation raised up a church in his honour - the 428:. Tainan Theological College and Seminary. Archived from 605:(2nd ed.). London: Presbyterian church of England. 658:"Tainan's Barclay Memorial Park wins Excellence Award" 1269:
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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Lintel above the door of the Barclay Memorial Church
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Shanghai: The Commercial press, limited. 137:; 21 November 1849 – 5 October 1935) was a 957: 943: 935: 780: 733: 719: 711: 26: 15: 524: 522: 1594:Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal 417: 359: 159:Tainan Theological College and Seminary 1015:Protestant missions in China 1807–1953 258:, Hugh Ritchie, William Campbell and 7: 1436:Reformed Church in the United States 1274:American Methodist Episcopal Mission 513: 501: 489: 474: 462: 450: 254:to be stationed in Taiwan-fu, after 1679:Presbyterian missionaries in Taiwan 1659:Alumni of the University of Glasgow 1431:Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association 1309:Protestant Episcopal Church Mission 348:renamed the Park No.18 (十八號公園) the 1674:Presbyterian missionaries in China 1664:Scottish Presbyterian missionaries 14: 1601:The Christian Occupation of China 767: 741:Christian missionaries in Taiwan 400: 388: 374: 369:Thomas Barclay's grave in Tainan 362: 242:under Douglas, Barclay moved to 1452:Bible translations into Chinese 926:(* = Latter-day Saints Church) 837:Francisco Fernández de Capillas 133: 63:Sin-Lau Hospital, Tainan City, 1615:The West China Missionary News 316:ceded the island of Taiwan to 252:Presbyterian Church of England 143:Presbyterian Church of England 124: 1: 1669:British expatriates in Taiwan 882:James Laidlaw Maxwell, Junior 214:From Scotland to the Far East 1421:English Presbyterian Mission 1402:Peking Union Medical College 965:Protestant missions to China 632:Anderson, Gerald H. (1998). 1397:West China Union University 1377:Fukien Christian University 636:. Macmillan Reference USA. 599:Douglas, Carstairs (1899). 1700: 1467:Chinese Christian colleges 1409:Methodist Episcopal Church 1299:National Christian Council 1279:Canadian Methodist Mission 531:"The History of Peh-Oe-Ji" 1654:Leipzig University alumni 1457:Medical missions in China 1294:London Missionary Society 765: 25: 1565:Second Sino-Japanese War 1426:Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui 1387:College of Yale-in-China 1231:Elwood Gardner Tewksbury 983:Protestantism in Sichuan 576:Barclay, Thomas (1923). 407:The Amoy Romanized Bible 198:. 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Hewat 1000:Christianity in China 877:James Laidlaw Maxwell 686:Band, Edward (1936). 382:Barclay Memorial Park 350:Barclay Memorial Park 288:in 1916 and then the 256:James Laidlaw Maxwell 101:University of Leipzig 97:University of Glasgow 1284:China Inland Mission 1226:John Leighton Stuart 1216:Vincent John Stanton 1186:Karl Ludvig Reichelt 1156:Robert Samuel Maclay 872:George Leslie Mackay 300:, which accompanies 272:, printed using the 192:John Campbell Gibson 155:George Leslie Mackay 1392:Huachung University 1372:Hangchow University 1362:Yenching University 1251:(more missionaries) 1221:John and Betty Stam 1131:Carl C. 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Glasgow
Scotland
Tainan Prefecture
Japanese Taiwan
Tainan
Taiwan
University of Glasgow
University of Leipzig
Chinese
Pe̍h-ōe-jī
missionary
Presbyterian Church of England
Formosa
Taiwan
George Leslie Mackay
Tainan Theological College and Seminary
Glasgow
Huguenot
Glasgow University
Sir William Thomson
Encyclopædia Britannica
John Campbell Gibson
Dugald Mackichan
missionaries
Cambridge Seven
Leipzig
Carstairs Douglas
Xiamen
Bombay

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