11 Facts About Timothy Richard

Timothy Richard was a Welsh Baptist missionary to China, who influenced the modernisation of China and the rise of the Chinese Republic.

Timothy Richard was a leader in promoting anti-foot binding and gender equality in China.

Timothy Richard applied to the newly formed China Inland Mission, but Hudson Taylor considered that he would be of better service to the denominational Baptist missions.

In 1897 Timothy Richard undertook a journey to India to discover the conditions of the Christian mission there.

Timothy Richard helped the Qing government to deal with the aftermath of the Taiyuan massacre during the Boxer Rebellion.

Timothy Richard thought its main cause was lack of education of the population, so he proposed to Qing court official Li Hongzhang to establish a modern university in Taiyuan with Boxer Indemnity to the Great Britain, and his proposal was approved later.

In 1902, Timothy Richard represented the British government to establish Shanxi University, one of the three earliest modern universities in China.

Timothy Richard was in charge of the fund to build Shanxi University until ten years later in 1912.

In China, Timothy Richard became a contributor to the monthly Wan Guo Gong Bao, or Review of the Times, which Young John Allen founded and edited from 1868 to 1907.

Timothy Richard's papers are preserved in the BMS archives at Regent's Park College, Oxford.

On death in April 1919, Timothy Richard was cremated, and his ashes placed in the columbarium of Golders Green Crematorium.