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Warren, W H


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 CIM/PP 28-33

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Warren, W H

Date(s): 1903-1940

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 volumes and 1 file

Name of creator(s): Warren | W H | c 1870-1940 | missionary

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, c1870; worked as a printer and bookbinder, living in Canterbury; served the China Inland Mission (CIM), leaving for China aged 21, 1891; arrived, 1892; studied the language at Anking, in Anhwei; sent to Ningpo in Chekiang province; married the daughter of a missionary, Minnie Meadows, 1897; stationed at Shaohsing, c1897-1911; moved to Hangchow, 1911; Principal of the Bible Training Institute, which prepared Chinese students for Christian service; subsequently CIM Superintendent of the Chekiang field; left Chekiang and served the CIM administration in various capacities from 1922; appointed CIM Assistant China Director, 1931; travelled from the CIM headquarters in Shanghai to distant provinces including Kansu, Kweichow and Yunnan; died, 1940.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, 1903-1940, of the Rev W H Warren, comprising four station reports from Shaohsing, 1903-1914; two printed China Inland Mission reports from Shanghai, 1931; Warren's manuscript account of an attack by pirates on a mission party travelling from Shanghai to Chefoo schools (Yantai), 1935; typescript report on events in China and their implications for missionary work, 1937; typescript report from Shanghai, 1940; Nosu hymnbook, undated.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English and Nosu

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted. Readers should order the documents as CIM box 4 in SOAS Special Collections Reading Room.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Database and unpublished handlist.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

The papers form part of the series of personal and private papers of individual missionaries among the records of the China Inland Mission.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated with the records of the China Inland Mission from 1991.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the China Inland Mission (Ref: CIM).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: Chinese Recorder, xxiii (1892), p 98; ibid lxxi (1940), pp 307-8; School of Oriental and African Studies, CIM 86.

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: Mar 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Children of missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Clergy | Religious groups
Educational missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Educational missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Evangelistic missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Evangelistic missionary work | Missionary work | Religious activities
Inland water transport | Transport
Missionary childrens schools | Mission schools | Schools | Educational institutions
Ordained missionaries | Missionaries | Religious groups
Protestantism | Christianity | Ancient religions | Religions
Protestants | Christians | Religious groups
Religious movements | Religious institutions
Religious music | Musical styles
Religious practice | Religious activities
Travel abroad | Travel
Crime

Personal names
Warren | W H | c 1870-1940 | missionary

Corporate names
Chefoo Schools | south and east Asia
China Inland Mission

Places
Shanghai | Shanghai Shi | China | East Asia
Shaoxing | China | East Asia
Yantai | Beijing Shi | China | East Asia
Shaohsing x Shaoxing