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Meech, Samuel Evans


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380590

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Meech, Samuel Evans

Date(s): 1900, [1930s]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Meech | Samuel Evans | 1845-1937 | missionary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born at Sherborne, 1845; studied at Cheshunt College (Cambridge); appointed London Missionary Society (LMS) missionary to Peking, was ordained, and sailed for Peking, 1871; married Edith Prankard (d 1903), 1872; engaged in pastoral and evangelistic work in Peking and its out-stations; in charge of the native church and out-stations, 1873-1876; settled in the West City; left Peking and joined the mission station at Chi Chow (Siaochang), 1897; with his family and other missionaries, forced to leave due to the Boxer Uprising, 1900; fled to the coast near Chefoo, took a steamer to Japan, and returned to England via Canada; returned to Peking, 1902; joined the staff of the Union Theological College, Peking, 1905; resigned and was transferred to Sioachang, 1915; served for many years as Secretary of the LMS North China District Committee; returned to England, 1921; resigned his position as a missionary, 1922; subsequently went back to live in China, but returned to England, 1933; died at Marlborough, Wiltshire, 1937. Publications: contributed several articles on the Chinese version of the Scriptures to Hasting's Dictionary of the Bible. His daughter, Gladys Evans Meech (1888-1935), was also a missionary to China, 1925-1935.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopies of papers, 1900, [1930s], relating to Samuel Evans Meech, comprising a typescript, 'The Boxer Years' [1930s], giving an account (covering the years 1899-1900) of his family's flight with other missionaries from Siaochang (Chi Chow) to escape the Boxer Uprising, including the short time they spent in Japan and Canada, and three family letters, 1900, giving accounts of the events during the Boxer Uprising and a description of the journey from Chefoo to Canada.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Database.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated in 1992.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Privately owned.

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies also holds the records of the London Missionary Society, including letters from individual missionaries, among them Meech (Ref: CWM/LMS North China Incoming correspondence); photographs of him (Ref: CWM/LMS General Portraits Box 4, CWM/LMS China Photographs Boxes 2, 13, 14); and various papers relating to his daughter, Gladys Evans Meech. SOAS also holds a press cutting on Samuel Meech, 1933 (Ref: CBMS/H/PB23 Box 88 File 23 no 109), and an obituary, 1937 (Ref: CBMS/H/PB44 Box 109 File 44 no 22).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: LMS Register of Missionaries, ed James Sibree.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Boxer Rebellion (1900-1901) | Wars (events)
Missionaries | Religious groups
Travel abroad | Travel
War | International conflicts

Personal names
Meech | family | missionaries | of China
Meech | Samuel Evans | 1845-1937 | missionary

Corporate names
Missionary Society x LMS | London Missionary Society x London Missionary Society

Places
Canada | North America
Japan | East Asia
Yantai | Beijing Shi | China | East Asia