One of Younghusband's domestic servants, Gladys Aylward, became a Christian missionary to China.

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 American 20th Century Fox film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II.

Aylward became a Chinese citizen in 1936.

It was during Aylward ’ s term as editor that The Witness became a daily paper, and the railway line reached Pietermaritzburg, both in 1880.

Gladys May Aylward ( Chinese name: 艾偉德, pinyin: ài wěi dé ) ( 24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970 ) was the evangelical Christian missionary to China whose story was told in the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.

She was known to the Chinese as 艾偉德 ( Ài Wěi Dé-a Chinese approximation to ' Aylward ' - meaning ' Virtuous One ').

Directed by Mark Robson, who received an Academy Award for Directing nomination, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt Jürgens as her love interest, Colonel Lin Nan, a Chinese officer with a Dutch father.

The 2010 World Championship Final held at Ipswich was won by Colin Aylward.

A particularly popular idea was the Quinarian system popularised by Nicholas Aylward Vigors ( 1785 – 1840 ), William Sharp Macleay ( 1792 – 1865 ), William Swainson and others.

Aylward was born of a working-class family in Edmonton, London in 1902.

In 1938, the region was invaded by Japanese forces, and Aylward led over 100 orphans to safety over the mountains, despite being wounded herself.

Although she found herself a figure of international interest thanks to the popularity of the movie and television and media interviews, Aylward was mortified by her depiction in the film and the many liberties it took.

Shortly after her death, an Edmonton secondary school formerly known as Weir Hall was renamed Gladys Aylward School in her honour.

Buckfast Abbey was founded by Earl Aylward in the reign of King Cnut in 1018.

The Australian Raven was first described by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827 ; its specific epithet coronoides " crow-shaped " is derived from the Greek corone / κορονη " crow " and eidos / ειδος " shape " or " form ".

The Blue-winged Kookaburra was first collected by Sir Joseph Banks in 1770, but was initially overlooked and confused with the Laughing Kookaburra, and was finally officially described by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1826, its specific name commemorating the British zoologist William Elford Leach.

Robert Donat, who played the mandarin of the town in which Aylward lived, died before the film was released.

The film makers, since release, have been criticised for casting Ingrid Bergman, a tall woman with a Swedish accent, as Gladys Aylward, who was in fact short and had a cockney accent.

The real Gladys Aylward ( 1902 – 1970 ) was born in London.

Gladys Aylward was deeply upset by the inaccuracy of the movie.

Although she found herself a figure of international interest thanks to the popularity of the movie and television and media interviews, Aylward was mortified by her depiction in the film and the many liberties it took.

Buckfast Abbey was founded by Earl Aylward in the reign of King Canute in 1018.

The text was by Nicholas Aylward Vigors and the illustrations were lithographed by Gould's wife Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Coxen of Kent.

It was founded in London in April 1826 by Sir Stamford Raffles, the Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Auckland, Sir Humphry Davy, Robert Peel, Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors along with various other nobility, clergy, and naturalists.

That night the executive of the party decided the process of choosing the next leader, nominations for the leadership opened on August 10, 2011, and Kevin Aylward was chosen by the executive on August 14, 2011.

In addition to Reeves and Mortimer, the other mainstay of the programme was Les ( played by Fred Aylward ), Vic's bald, lab coat-clad assistant who never spoke, loved spirit levels and had a fear of chives.

Just as they are preparing to leave, another fifty orphans appear from a neighbouring town, so Aylward and Li have no choice but to lead one hundred children on a trek across the countryside.

On her arrival in Yuncheng, Aylward worked with an older missionary, Jeannie Lawson, to found The Inn of the Eight Happinesses.

There she founded the Gladys Aylward Orphanage, where she worked until her death in 1970.

The struggles of Aylward and her family to effect her initial trip to China were skipped over in favor of a plot device of an employer " condescending to write to ' his old friend ' Jeannie Lawson ," and Aylward's dangerous, complicated travels across Russia and China were reduced to " a few rude soldiers ," after which " Hollywood's train delivered her neatly to Tsientsin.

Aylward died on 3 January 1970 just short of her 68th birthday, and is buried in a small cemetery on the campus of Christ's College in Guandu, New Taipei, Taiwan.

The story begins with Aylward ( Ingrid Bergman ) being rejected as a potential missionary to China because of her lack of education.

Over the next few months, Aylward saves her money to purchase a ticket on the Trans-Siberian railway, choosing the more dangerous overland route to the East because it is less expensive.

As the population prepares to evacuate the town, the mandarin announces that he is converting to Christianity to honour Aylward and her work ( she is rather taken aback by this, as she would have preferred him to convert through religious conviction.

Aylward is greeted by Dr. Robinson, whom she reminds how he rejected her as a missionary years before.

The struggles of Aylward and her family to effect her initial trip to China were skipped over in favor of a plot device of an employer " condescending to write to ' his old friend ' Jeannie Lawson ," and Aylward's dangerous, complicated travels across Russia and China were reduced to " a few rude soldiers ," after which " Hollywood's train delivered her neatly to Tsientsin.

Numerous books, short stories and movies have been created about the life and work of Gladys Aylward ( listed below ).

He left the Witness in late 1879 and was succeeded by Alfred Aylward, a colourful Irishman who openly boasted that as a staunch Fenian he had been implicated in the killing of a Manchester policeman – a claim which, like many others made by the larger-than-life Aylward, has not withstood historical scrutiny.

* The Archive of Gladys Aylward is held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

* Torchlighters: The Gladys Aylward Story ( 2008 )-animated DVD for children ages 8 – 12.

He founded Ganglia Press in 1965 with David Aylward and grOnk ( magazine ) in 1967 with bill bissett and David UU ( David W. Harris ).

* In the 1958 film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness Ingrid Bergman portrays British missionary to China Gladys Aylward, who is assigned as a foreigner the task by a local Mandarin to unbind the feet of young women, an unpopular order that the civil government had failed to fulfill.

Other early scientific names include Muscicapa tricolor by Vieillot, and Rhipidura motacilloides by naturalists Nicholas Aylward Vigors and Thomas Horsfield in 1827, who erected the genus Rhipidura.