John Burdon (bishop)
{{Short description|British bishop}}
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{{Use British English|date=May 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name = John Shaw Burdon
| image = JS Burdon.jpg
| caption = Missionary to China
| image_size = 175px
| birth_date = 12 December 1826
| birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland
| death_date = 5 January 1907
| death_place = Royston, Hertfordshire, England
}}
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John Shaw Burdon[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp100068/john-shaw-burdon NPG details] ({{zh|s=包尔腾|t=包爾騰}}; 1826{{snd}}5{{nbsp}}January 1907) was a British Christian missionary to China with the Church Mission Society who in time became a bishop.[https://archive.org/details/JohnShawBurdon-HudsonTaylorsFriendInChina-BishopAndMissionaryIn Archive.Org]
Life
Burdon was ordained to the priesthood by the Bishop of London in December 1852;'BURDON, Rt Rev. John Shaw', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U184261, accessed 17 Sept 2013] and resigned in 1896.Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 4 Aug 1896; pg. 3; Issue 34960 He opposed Britain's part in the Anglo-Chinese First and Second Opium Wars. He was consecrated a bishop on 15 March 1874, by John Jackson, Bishop of London, at Lambeth Parish Church;{{Church Times | title = Church news: Consecration of new bishops | archive = 1874_03_20_143 | issue = 582 | date = 20 March 1874 | page = 143 | accessed = 23 December 2021 }} to serve the South China diocese of the Anglican Church in Victoria and Hong Kong. Burdon was a translator with Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky of the Book of Common Prayer.{{Citation|last=Wickeri|first=Philip L.|title=Anglicanism in China and East Asia, 1819–1912|date=2017-02-02|url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699704.001.0001/acprof-9780199699704-chapter-15|work=The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume III|pages=318–337|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en-US|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699704.003.0015|isbn=9780199699704|access-date=2018-07-19|url-access=subscription}} He resigned his See "a few months" before December 1897.{{Church Times | title = Church news | archive = 1897_12_23_754 | issue = 1822 | date = 23 December 1897 | page = 754 | accessed = 23 December 2021 }}
Burdon was a friend and fellow travelling evangelist of the young Hudson Taylor. He married Harriet Ann, whom he lost to illness in 1854 in Shanghai.Ellison, E. S.; Shantung Road Cemetery 1846-1868. His second marriage in 1857 was to Burella Hunter Dyer, the daughter of missionary Rev.Samuel Dyer."The Gentleman's Magazine" July–December, 1858, p. 646. She died the following year of cholera, also in Shanghai. His third wife also predeceased him. Burdon is fluent in Shanghainese. In April 1855, Burdon and Hudson Taylor stationed in Chongming Island, adjacent to Shanghai. When they preached, Hudson Taylor spoke first in Mandarin, then Burton interpreted into Shanghainese, which is native to the island.{{cite journal|title=19世纪传教士汉语方言小说述略|journal=文学遗产|date=2012|issue=4|author=宋莉华|url=http://renwen.shnu.edu.cn/_upload/article/files/6c/30/8058fe1b422dadfc2911a97f7672/8503c1d6-bcf9-4393-b3dd-9b3aed2e9579.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922025533/http://renwen.shnu.edu.cn/_upload/article/files/6c/30/8058fe1b422dadfc2911a97f7672/8503c1d6-bcf9-4393-b3dd-9b3aed2e9579.pdf|archive-date=2020-09-22|page=137}}
The school, named Tong Wen Guan, was officially opened on 11 June 1862 and Burdon was hired as the first English instructor.Broomhall (1983), 443
He died at Bedford on 5 January 1907, and was buried at Royston. {{sfn|Lee|1912}}
Family
Burdon was married three times: first, to Harriet Anne Forshaw on 30 March 1853, who died at Shanghai on 26 September 1854 ; second, to Burella Hunter Dyer, on 11 November 1857, who died on 16 Aug. 1858; third, to Phoebe Esther, daughter of E. T. Alder, vicar of Bungay on 14 June 1865. She died on 14 June 1898; they had three sons.{{sfn|Lee|1912}}
Bibliography
- Old Testament Manual
- Christian Joy: A Sermon, Preached in the London Mission Chapel, Shanghai, 25 November 1858, the Last Thursday in the Month, Usually Observed in the United States of America as Thanksgiving Day (1858)
- [http://anglicanhistory.org/asia/china/shaw_term1877.html The Chinese Term for God: A Letter to the Protestant Missionaries of China] (1877)
- Colloquial Versions of the Chinese Scriptures: A Paper to be read at the Shanghai Missionary Conference (1890)
Notes
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References
- {{DNB12|wstitle=Burdon, John Shaw}}
- {{cite book | first = Alfred | last = Broomhall | author-link = Alfred James Broomhall | year = 1983 | title = Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: Over The Treaty Wall | publisher = Hodder and Stoughton | location = London}}
- [http://www.bdcconline.net/en/stories/b/burdon-john-s.php John S. Burdon 1826 – 1907] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201065432/http://www.bdcconline.net/en/stories/b/burdon-john-s.php |date=1 February 2010 }}
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| title = Principal of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong
| before = Charles Richard Alford
| after = Joseph Charles Hoare
| years = 1874–1897
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