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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/ACC1028
TitleAccession 1028: Diary of Arthur Hutchinson, student at Church Missionary College 1866-1869
Extent1 volume, 2 items
Date1866-[c 1888]
DescriptionA personal diary written in the four years leading up to the diarist’s first departure overseas as a CMS missionary. With two papers of a later date found loosely inserted.

The diary entries cover the three years when Arthur Hutchinson was a student at Church Missionary College, Islington, and the first months after his ordination when he was working in England whilst waiting to go out to the CMS mission in Hong Kong. It includes early photographs and provides a detailed and personal record of one student’s experience of Church Missionary College, including interactions with fellow students.
ArrangementThis collection forms part of the Church Mission Society Unofficial Papers. It is arranged into one series.
F: Family papers
Access ConditionsThe diary contains fragile material (including pressed flowers) and early photographs which must not be touched. Avoid placing hands, weights, glass or anything else on these pages. Desk lamps must be turned off.
CopyrightPermission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance in writing, from the Director of Special Collections (email: special-collections@contacts.bham.ac.uk), from the Church Mission Society (email: maddy.peston@churchmissionsociety.org), and any other right holders. Requests to publish should be accompanied by a copy of proposed text and images. Special Collections will assist where possible with identifying other copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.
Access StatusOpen, but subject to some access restrictions
Physical DescriptionSome pages detached from the spine and most loose; some pages show signs of pest damage.
Administrative HistoryArthur Blockey Hutchinson, 1841-1919, clergyman and missionary, trained at the Church Missionary College in Islington, 12 September 1866-1899. He was ordained 23 May 1869 (deacon) and 12 June 1870 (priest). He served as curate of Broomfeld, Essex 1870-1971 before sailing for the CMS mission at Hong Kong, 14 October 1871. After undertaking deputation work in England 1880-1882, he transferred to the CMS Japan mission in March 1882 (Nagasaki). In 1910 he was appointed Archdeacon of the Church of England in Kiu-Shiu. After 48 years mission work in China and Japan, Rev Hutchinson died in Japan 22 August 1919.

1871: 14 October departed for mission service in China
1879: 15 March to England
1882: 15 March to Nagasaki
1888: opened station at Fukoka
1891: 29 October to England
1894: 4 April to Fukoka
1901: 13 March to England
1903: 18 March Japan
1908: 24 March to England
1910: 8 March Nagasaki

Family life: he married (1) Sarah Wippell 23 June 1870 (died in England, 1 February 1881) and (2) Elizabeth W. Gibbings 21 February 1882 (died in England, 8 February 1940); two of Hutchinson's sons, Archibald and Ernest Hutchinson, followed their father into the mission field with CMS and one of his daughters taught at a girls' school in Ceylon [Sri Lanka].

Literary works: 'Dale on the Atonement' (translation into Japanese); 'Old testament primer' in Chinese (Religious Tract Society, 1875); 'Harmony of Gospels' (Religious Tract Society, 1878); Book of Psalms and the Book of Common Prayer translation into Cantonese (1877); Ordinal of the Church of England and 39 Articles (1878); Chapters of Chinese Philosophy (1879); translation of 'Faber's Mind of Mencius' (Trubner, 1881); 'Harmony of Gospels' (in Japanese) (Religious Tract Society, 1877); 'A Cathechism of Christian Religion' (1890)' 'Fourteen Sermons of Christian Life' (1890)'; Thirty-Nine Articles with References and Notes' (1891).

Sources: annotated version 'Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904' (Church Missionary Society, 1905); Bishop Lea, 'The Late Archdeacon Hutchinson', CMS Japan Quarterly, December 1919, pages 150-151.
AcquisitionPresented 2017.
Archival NoteCatalogued 2017. Prepared in accordance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000 and Church Mission Society cataloguing guidelines.
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