Born in London on 25 November 1862, the third child and second son of James Hudson Taylor (1832-1900), MRCS, and his wife, *née* Dyer. J H Taylor founded and for long directed the China Inland Mission, with which his son Frederick was later associated for fifty-seven years; his life was written by t

Henry Tonks was born at Solihull, Warwickshire, on 9 April 1862, second son and fifth of the eleven children of Edmund Tonks, sometime barrister of Gray's Inn, of Packwood Grange, Knowle, Warwickshire, and Julia Anne Johnson, his wife. Edmund Tonks left the bar on his marriage and joined his father'