1. Thomas Torrance was a Scottish Presbyterian minister and Protestant missionary to Sichuan, western China.
11 Facts About Thomas Torrance
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Thomas Torrance was first sent there by the China Inland Mission, and later by The American Bible Society.
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Thomas Torrance married Annie Elizabeth Sharpe of the CIM in 1911.
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Thomas Torrance was the father of the 20th century theologian, Thomas F Torrance.
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Thomas Torrance came from a strong evangelical Church of Scotland background.
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Thomas Torrance attended Hulme Cliff College in Derbyshire from 1892 to 1894, and then studied at Livingstone College, London from 1894 to 1895.
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Thomas Torrance had a number of disagreements with the CIM and eventually left and returned to Scotland in 1909.
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In 1911, Thomas Torrance married Annie Elizabeth Sharpe who had been a member of the CIM, stationed west of Chengdu in Guanxian.
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Thomas Torrance returned to China in 1928 to continue his missionary work, without his family, for seven years, and left China for the final time in 1934 due to the Chinese Civil War.
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Thomas Torrance is known for being the first Westerner to conduct research among the Qiang people, who he believed belonged to the Lost Tribes of Israel.
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Thomas Torrance was instrumental in establishing the Archaeological Museum of West China Union University.