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Stevenson
John
1798-1858
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John Stevenson was born in Alton Campsie, Stirlingshire, on 3 November 1798 He trained as a minister becoming a missionary in India and an Indologist. After ordination in 1823 he was sent by the Scottish Missionary Society to their new Bombay Mission, and was a Missionary in Pune until appointed, in 1834, as Chaplain of the East India Company in Bombay, as Senior Chaplain in 1841, and Minister of St. Andrews. He resigned in 1854 and returned to Britain becoming Parish Minister of Ladykirk in Berwickshire from 1855-58.