Church Missionary Society
Fox gave his health and his short life to the Telugu country. Hearing that millions in the north had never had an Anglican clergyman sent to them, he offered himself to the CMS and, with Robert Noble, began mission and school work at Masulipatam. Illness forced him home in 1848, where he kept serving the cause as a society secretary; a memorial schoolmastership at Masulipatam carried his name back to the field he had loved.
He went looking, on purpose, for the door no one else had knocked on — a whole people, he was told, to whom not one messenger had yet been sent.
Roles
Regions
What they did
- Born in 1817; offered himself to the CMS for the Telugu people of South India
- Pioneered, with Robert Noble, mission and school work at Masulipatam among a population previously without an Anglican minister
- Returned to England in 1848 in failing health and served as a CMS secretary; remembered in a memorial schoolmastership at Masulipatam
Society
Sources: fox-memoir-telugu p.73 · fox-memoir-telugu p.92 · fox-memoir-telugu p.241