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See also:CHALMERS, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1841-1901) , Scottish missionary to New See also:Guinea, was See also:born at Ardrishaig in See also:Argyll. After serving in the See also:Glasgow See also:City See also:Mission he passed through See also:Cheshunt See also:College, and, being accepted by the See also:London Missionary Society, was appointed to Rarotonga in the See also:South Pacific in 1866. Here the natives gave him the well-known name "Tamate." After ten years' service, especially in training native evangelists, he was transferred to New Guinea. In addition to his enthusiastic but sane missionary See also:work, Chalmers did much to open up the See also:island, and, with his colleague W. G. See also:Lawes, gave valuable aid in the See also:British See also:annexation of the south-See also:east See also:coast of the island. On the 8th of See also:April 19o1, in See also:company with a See also:brother missionary, See also:Oliver Tomkins, he was killed by cannibals at Goaribari Island. R. L. See also:Stevenson has See also:left on See also:record his high appreciation of Chalmers's See also:character and work.
Chalmers's AutobiogPaphy and Letters were edited by See also:Richard Lovett in 19oz, who also wrote a popular See also:life called Tamale.
End of Article: CHALMERS, JAMES (1841-1901)
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