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Aug 17, 1851 Died on 19 May 1900 (aged 48)
medical missionary in India
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About Charles Stewart Thompson
- Charles Stewart Thompson (17 August 1851 – 19 May 1900) was the first medical missionary in Kherwara in Rajputana, the Bhils region of Central India.
- His schools, famine relief centers, and medical service transformed care in the region. Born and raised in Easington in County Durham, England, Thompson attended the College of Islington for brief medical training and was later accepted as a missionary by the Church Mission Society.
- He was deployed to Kherwara, India, where he spent nearly 20 years living and working, ultimately dedicating his life to the plight of the Bhils. As a doctor, teacher, reverend and philanthropist, Thompson worked to treat cholera, leprosy, the Bubonic plague, ophthalmia, malaria, rheumatism and fever.
- During his medical missionary career, Thompson laid the foundation for later medical missions in the Bhil region by establishing primary schools, dispensaries, relief centers and orphanages, pioneering Christianity to the Bhils, and training several Bhils in medicine.
- Besides his medical work, Thompson was also interested in diminishing the communication gap between the Bhils and the Europeans, which eventually led him to publish the first grammar and vocabulary book in the Bhili language as well as a prayer book.
