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Name: SMITH, John

Birth Date: 1853

Death Date: 11 May 1877 Kagei

First Date: 1876

Last Date: 1877

Profession: Medical missionary

Area: Nyanza

Book Reference: CMS

General Information:

CMS 1876 - Age 23. Of Liverpool. MB, CM Edinburgh. The friend and fellow-worker of Mackay in Ragged Schools etc. in Edinburgh. 1876, May 25 to Eastern Equatorial Africa - Nyanza - Mission as Medical Missionary. 1877, May 11 died at Kagei. "My noble and good brother is taken from us, so gentle and kind, and a capital physician; I shall never look on his like again," Memoir of Mackay by his sister, p. 47. Service 1 year.

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