biography
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Stuart, John Leighton
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1972)
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| biography:
| Protestant missionary and educator, born in Hangchow, China. The son of Presbyterian missionaries, he graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, was ordained a Presbyterian minister, and returned to China in 1904. He was a professor at Nanking Theological Seminary (1908–19) and in the latter year he became first president of Yenching University in Peking. Named US ambassador to China (1946), he returned to the USA (1949) after the consolidation of Communist power. His memoir, Fifty Years in China, appeared in 1954. |
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