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John Shaw Burdon (simplified Chinese: 包尔腾; traditional Chinese: 包爾騰; 1826–1907) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China with the Church Mission Society. He opposed Britain's part in the Opium Wars in China. In 1874 he was made bishop of the South China Diocese of the Anglican Church in Victoria and Hong Kong. Burdon was a translator with Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky of the Book of Common Prayer.
He was a friend and fellow travelling evangelist with the young Hudson Taylor and he was briefly, his brother-in-law. Burdon's first marriage in 1857 was to Burella Dyer, the daughter of the late missionary Samuel Dyer. She died the following year in Shanghai of Cholera.
The school, named Tong Wen Guan, was officially opened on 11 June 1862, and Burdon was hired as the first English instructor.[1]
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