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missionary to china 12 december 1914 england norfolk , england 100px 1 september 1835 jjmeadows.jpg james joseph meadows
 james joseph meadows
james joseph meadows

james joseph meadows -lrb- 1 september 1835 -- 12 december 1914 -rrb- , protestant christian missionary to china and one of the first missionaries with the china inland mission .
meadows was converted to christianity at perth , scotland .
he later lived at barnsley , yorkshire .
meadows and his wife , martha , sailed for china aboard the challenger -lrb- clipper -rrb- on 8 january 1862 and arrived at shanghai on 24 may .
they were at first unconnected to any organized mission agency , as hudson taylor 's first recruits for the `` ningbo mission '' which three years later became the china inland mission .
their first field of work was in ningbo maintaining the missionary work with john jones -lrb- missionary -rrb- and edward clemens lord at the bridge street premises , while awaiting reinforcements from england .
martha died suddenly at ningbo in 1863 , and meadows later proposed marriage by letter to her friend , elizabeth rose .
upon miss rose 's arrival with the lammermuir party at shanghai on 30 september 1866 , the couple were married in october 1866 in ningbo .
elizabeth meadows died on 3 november 1890 .
meadows was away from china on furlough between 1871 and 1874 , and between may 1895 and november 1896 .
he died of cancer in 1914 .
