In the Cook Islands, blue laws were first written legislation, enacted by the London Missionary Society in 1827, with the consent of ariki ( chiefs ).

However, Western Medicine was introduced to China in the 19th Century, mainly by medical missionaries sent from various Christian mission organizations, such as the London Missionary Society ( Britain ), the Methodist Church ( Britain ) and the Presbyterian Church ( USA ).

Benjamin Hobson ( 1816-1873 ), a medical missionary sent by the London Missionary Society in 1839, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic ( 惠愛醫館 ) in Guangzhou, China.

The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese ( 香港華人西醫書院 ) was founded in 1887 by the London Missionary Society, with its first graduate ( in 1892 ) being Sun Yat-sen ( 孫中山 ).

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Artisan missionary envoys from the London Missionary Society began arriving in 1818 and included such key figures as James Cameron, David Jones and David Griffiths, who established schools, transcribed the Malagasy language using the Roman alphabet, translated the Bible, and introduced a variety of new technologies to the island.

His father Ernest Cromwell Peake was a medical missionary doctor with the London Missionary Society of the Congregationalist tradition and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth Powell, had come to China as a missionary assistant.

* The Archive of the Methodist Missionary Society is held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

The next notable European visitors were from the London Missionary Society who arrived in 1846 on the " Messenger of Peace ".

The first missionaries from the London Missionary Society and the Marist Brothers arrived in the 1840s.

Christian missionaries from the London Missionary Society converted most of the population circa 1846.

Mission work in Samoa had begun in late 1830 by John Williams, of the London Missionary Society arriving in Sapapali ' i from The Cook Islands and Tahiti.

Depiction of a fetish in South Africa by the London Missionary Society, circa 1900.

It was formerly a school of London Missionary Society and later became a member school of the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China.

The first institution with the name of Ying Wa College was founded in Malacca in 1818 by Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society, the first Protestant missionary to China.

The London Missionary Society gave the ground.

In 1913 the London Missionary Society responded to the appeal of the To Tsai Church to provide a Headmaster for the project, sending Arnold Hughes to Hong Kong, and the college was re-opened as a middle school in 1914 in rented premises, first at 9 Caine Road, later at 45 Caine Road, and finally at 80 Bonham Road ( a former German Rhenish Mission property ).

In that year the London Missionary Society transferred the Rev.

In 1930 Shum resigned and the London Missionary Society agreed to urgent appeals from the school committee that the Rev.

Frank Short continued in office until 1938 when he had to devote more time to administrative work for the London Missionary Society.

In 1869 Queen Ranavalona II, previously educated by the London Missionary Society, underwent baptism into the Church of England and subsequently made the Anglican faith the official state religion of Madagascar.

In 1820 under the direction of David Jones, a Welsh missionary of the London Missionary Society, Radama I codified the new Malagasy Latin alphabet of 21 letters which replaced the old sorabe alphabet.

Aitutaki was the first of the Cook Islands to accept Christianity, after London Missionary Society ( LMS ) missionary John Williams visited in 1821.

David Livingstone ( 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873 ) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa.

Shortly after, he applied to join the London Missionary Society ( LMS ) and was accepted subject to missionary training.

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He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 and was its honorary secretary in 1812 – 1817.

He was founder of the Chemical Society of London in 1841, being its first Treasurer and second President.

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* C. I. Hamilton, " Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October – November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty, in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, ( London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984 ).

The Philharmonic Society of London originally commissioned the symphony in 1817.

In 1901, Bishop Montgomery became secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the family returned to London.

In 1728 he was elected into the French Academy of Sciences, and two years later into the Royal Society of London.

Elder DD The Book of Esther: Its spiritual teaching London: The Religious Tract Society, 1913

It was one of two antiquities of Hamilton's collection drawn for him by Francesco Progenie, a pupil of Pietro Fabris, who also contributed a number of drawings of Mount Vesuvius sent by Hamilton to the Royal Society in London.

The nucleus was also described by Franz Bauer in 1804 and in more detail in 1831 by Scottish botanist Robert Brown in a talk at the Linnean Society of London.

After overcoming considerable difficulty and achieving notable success, Boylston traveled to London in 1724 where he published his results and was elected to the Royal Society in 1726.

Proper Terms: An attempt at a rational explanation of the meanings of the Collection of Phrases in " The Book of St Albans ", 1486, entitled " The Compaynys of beestys and fowlys " and similar lists., Transactions of the Philological Society 1907-1910 Part III, pp 1 – 187, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trübner & Co, Ltd, London, 1909.

In 1832, Lyell married Mary Horner of Bonn, daughter of Leonard Horner ( 1785 – 1864 ), also associated with the Geological Society of London.

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* Bryan R. Wilson, Sects and Society: A Sociological Study of the Elim Tabernacle, Christian Science and Christadelphians ( London: Heinemann, 1961 ; Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961 ).

In April, 1789 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

He was employed by the Zoological Society of London as Curator of Mammals at the London Zoo, eventually leaving in 1966 in frustration about stagnation at the zoo.

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The College's founder Eleazar Wheelock designed a seal for his college bearing a striking resemblance to the seal of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a missionary society founded in London in 1701, in order to maintain the illusion that his college was more for mission work than for higher education.

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.