| Administrative History | Rev Thomas McClelland ( 1859-1920) (CMS Register of Missionaries List I No. 1158) of Carrickfergus, Ireland was accepted by the CMS as a missionary in 1890. He was stationed at Fukien Mission in South China and worked in Foo Chow Boys Boarding School. In 1893 he married Olive Derry a nurse with the CEZMS. He returned to England in 1896 and became the Organising Secretary for Hibernian CMS in 1898. In 1902 he was appointed Association Secretary for the South Metropolitan District and from 1909 for the Chichester and Canterbury district. He resigned in 1911.
References: Register of missionaries (clerical, lay & female) and native clergy from 1804 to 1904 (Church Missionary Society, 1905) and Register of missionaries additional List I 1804-1892. |
| Custodial History | Deposited with the CMS in February 1985 and transferred to the Special Collections Department in 2005 |