Taylor, Frederick Howard

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 CIM/PP 119-157
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: Taylor, Frederick Howard
Date(s)	: [1853], 1907-1940
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 6 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Taylor | Frederick Howard | 1862-1946 | medical missionary

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1862; second son of the founder of the China Inland Mission, James Hudson Taylor; MD, London, 1888; member of the Royal College of Physicians, 1889; Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; initiated the Student Foreign Missionary Union; toured the USA and Canada with his father, 1888; served the China Inland Mission in Henan from 1890; peripatetic medical missionary; married M Geraldine Guinness, 1894; travelled frequently with his father; died, 1946. Publications: Pastor Hsi: One of China's Christians (1905); Hudson Taylor in early years: the growth of a soul (1911); Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: the Growth of a Work of God (1918); The Triumph of John and Betty Stam (1935); Biography of James Hudson Taylor (1965).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers, [1853], 1907-1940, of Frederick Howard Taylor: research notes on Chinese tribes, [1853], 1907-1940, comprising correspondence, articles, notes, maps, and many photographs of China and its inhabitants; typescripts [after 1905, before 1946] on the life of James Hudson Taylor between 1854 and 1905.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English and Chinese

System of arrangement:

The papers are divided between Taylor's notes on tribes (Ref: Boxes 11-12 Files 119-37) and his typescripts (Ref: Boxes 13-16 Files 138-157).

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted. Readers should order the documents as CIM boxes 11-16 in SOAS Special Collections Reading Room.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

Database and unpublished handlist.

Archival Information

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

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds the records of the China Inland Mission (Ref: CIM), including various correspondence of Frederick Howard Taylor.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: A J Broomhall, It is not Death to Die! (1989), vol vii of Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, p 677; British Library OPAC.

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