DUFF. ALEX kNO1:1: ( /. A Scotch mis siona•y to India. horn at :Moulin, Perthshire. IL' was educated at the University of Saint. Andrews, was ordained to the ministry of the Church of sootland in 1820, and in the same year was scut as the first missionary of that Church to India. He established his headquar ters at Calcutta. and decided to conduct his work on a new basis by founding a school which should later expand' into a college, and in which the English language should be used for in struction. first in the Bible. and secondly in Western knowledge generally. llis plan was to earry ou evangelistic activity largely by mean; of educated native preachers. Upon the dis ruption of the Church of Scotland. in 1843, he adhered, with all other foreign missionaries of the denomination. to the Free Church. He was therefore obliged to surrender the mission, with its entire equipment, to the Establishment. to which it legally belonged. Soon. however, he developed a new institution larger and more etheient than the old, with branch schools in surrounding villages. In 1849 he was com
pelled by ill health again to visit Scotland. where he remained until 1856. In 1851 he was called to the chair .of the (general Assembly of the Free Church. and in 1854 traveled and spoke in the 'United States. He assisted in founding the University of Calcutta. and in 1S64 perma nently returned to Scotland. He was appointed the first professor of evangelistie theology at New College. Edinburgh, in 181;7, and in 1873 was again elevated to the chair of the General Assembly. It was chiefly through his agency that the Free Church _Mission. on Lake Nyassn, Africa. was organized. His publi cations include The Church of Scotland's India Mission (1q35) and The World-wide Crisis (1873). Consult Smith, Time Life of Alexander Duff. D.11.. LL.D. (London, 1879).