John Shaw Burdon was the third Bishop of the Diocese of Victoria, in office from 1874 to 1897. The province's official history records that in 1882 he became the first Hong Kong bishop appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, that he was both a missionary loyal to the church and a sinologist who translated the earliest Chinese-language New Testament and Book of Common Prayer, and that some British residents of the colony complained he did not give them enough pastoral attention. The official pages do not state his years of birth or death.
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- 1882 · Became the first Hong Kong bishop appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury