Items Added to Existing Pages 

June 2004

 

Philately and Numismatics Page

 

East India Company Coin, 1818

EIC Half Anna

Obverse Detail

Reverse Detail (Image of the goddess Lakshmi, goddess of wealth)

 

East India Company Coin, 1835

EIC Half Anna

Obverse Detail

Reverse Detail (Image of the goddess Kali, the highest of all Hindu gods; reverse has date of 1807)

[added:    June 25, 2004]

 

 

Portrait Gallery Page

 

Rev. Henry Martyn (1781-1812)

Martyn, an Anglican, arrived in India, 1806, and became a friend of Carey, Marshman, and Ward.

 

Robert Morrison, D.D. (1782-1834), First Protestant Missionary to China

Initially Supported by the London Missionary Society, later, Employed by the East India Company as a translator of Chinese.

 

Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D. (1806-1878)

Scottish by birth, Duff arrived in Calcutta in 1830, where he began a Christian school.

[added:    June 3, 2004]

 

Rev. Henry Martyn (1781-1812), As a Young Man

 

Martyn's Persian Testament in Danger of Destruction

 

Martyn Preaching to the Union's Ship Company on the Voyage to India, 1805

 

Martyn Attempting to Save a Woman from Suttee

 

Martyn and a Moonshee Translating the Bible

 

An Indian Pundit

 

The East India Company House

Leadenhall Street, London

1800-1929

[added:    June 30, 2004]

 

 

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Created:    June 3, 2004            Updated:    June 30, 2004