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Title

British Mission

Barton, William Kilshaw

1828 March 16 – 1887 December 13

Birch, Joseph Flitcroft

1823 August 13 – 1909 June 15

Burton, Robert Taylor

1821 October 25 – 1907 November 11

Bywater, James

1825 August 23 – 1909 September 1

Call, Chester

1841 May 13 – 1908 January 26

Carrington, Albert

1813 January 8 – 1889 September 19

Clark, John

1834 April 8 – 1908 May 5

Fife, William Nicol

1831 October 16 – 1914 October 21

Geddes, William

1832 December 7 – 1899 August 27

Gibbs, George Francis

1846 November 23 – 1924 March 10

Graham, John Crosthwaite

1839 July 23 – 1906 March 18

Hardy, Milton Henry

1844 September 26 – 1905 August 23

Harker, Joseph

1818 February 28 – 1896 November 23

Herrick, Lester James

1827 December 14 – 1892 April 18

Heyborne, Robert William

1843 December 19 – 1907 June 5

Holbrook, Lafayette

1850 September 7 – 1941 January 1

Hughes, Henry

1825 December 25 – 1904 May 28

Jackson, James, Jr.

1826 February 6 – 1897 September 7

King, Volney

1847 March 11 – 1925 January 30

Leigh, Henry

1843 December 31 – 1920 December 2

Lyman, Francis Marion

1840 January 12 – 1916 November 18

McFarland, Archibald

1832 December 17 – 1915 December 14

McQuarrie, Robert

1832 August 17 – 1917 November 27

Morris, Richard Vaughn

1830 September 25 – 1882 March 12

Neff, John, III

1837 December 28 – 1918 January 6