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Apr 04, 1883 Rotherhithe, England, United Kingdom Died on 07 Dec 1948 (aged 65)
British missionary
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About William Cadman
- William Cadman (Rotherhithe 4 April 1883 - Da Lat, 7 December 1948) was an English missionary in Vietnam with his American wife Grace.
- William and his team printed the Bible in Hanoi, and his wife Grace was the primary translator of the Bible into Vietnamese, along with John Drange Olsen.
- The main Protestant version in use in Vietnam today is the "Cadman version."Cadman was a printer by profession who after conversion to Christianity left England for theological school in Canada then America.
- He enrolled to be a missionary in China but from there visited Vietnam where he met a South African nurse Grace Hazenberg.
- They married in 1915, and had one daughter who died in Hanoi.
- The couple ran a printing shop in Hanoi from 1917 until 1942 when they were interned by the Japanese at M? Tho.
- They were the only couple to remain after the war.
- Grace Cadman died On 24 April 1946 at the age of 69 and was buried at M?c Ðinh Chi Cemetery, Saigon.
- Cadman died in Dalat, on Sunday, 7 December, and was buried there.
- The grave has recently been restored by the local Protestant church.
