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Evan Bryant

British missionary

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5415330 ↗
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Evan Bryant (April 22, 1839 – March 28, 1918) was a Congregational missionary to China who served initially with the London Missionary Society and then the British and Foreign Bible Society (1884–1892) during the late Qing Dynasty China.

In March 1887 Bryant reached Seoul for the purpose of prospecting the country for the work of the British and Foreign Bible Society.

References

American Presbyterian Mission (1867). Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press.

Broomhall, Alfred (1982). Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: Barbarians at the Gates. London: Hodder and Stoughton.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1839, 1918, 1884, 1892—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1839-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Evan, Bryant and British can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Evan Bryant” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.