Maria Jane Taylor was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and "Mother" of the China Inland Mission with her husband, founder James Hudson Taylor. She was a pioneer missionary and educator there for 12 years. In 1858, she married Taylor and was an invaluable assistant and influence to him. In her time with the CIM, she was instrumental in training single women to be missionaries in China, when opportunities for women to serve had been previously dependent on having a missionary husband.
Maria Jane (Dyer) Taylor
Maria Dyer was born in the British Straits Settlements of Malacca. This shows the harbor in 1831 just before she was born.
Maria & Hudson Taylor.
Maria & Hudson Taylor in 1865.
OMF International is an international and interdenominational Evangelical Christian missionary society with an international centre in Singapore. It was founded in Britain by Hudson Taylor on 25 June 1865.
Hudson Taylor c. 1865
The Lammermuir Party sailed on 26 May 1866.
Missionary preaching in China using The Wordless Book
The China Inland Mission, one of two Grade 2 listed buildings on Newington Green. (October 2005).