Frederick Howard Taylor

Frederick Howard Taylor a.k.a. F. Howard Taylor , was a British pioneer Protestant Christian missionary to China, author, speaker and second son of James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, and Maria Jane Dyer.

Howard Taylor was three when his father founded the China Inland Mission. He was born in London during his parents first furlough in England together. In 1866 at the age of four he was taken with his parents,siblings and sixteen other missionaries to China aboard the Lammermuir as part of the famous Lammermuir Party. During the 4month long voyage the ship was nearly wrecked bytyphoons. His sister, Grace Dyer Taylor died of meningitis the first year. When he was six the family was nearly killed by a rioting mob during the Yangzhou riot in 1868. Finally in 1870 he was sent home with his surviving siblings with Emily Blatchley to live in London, separated from his parents. His mother died in China soon after they arrived home in 1870.

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