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Daniel Corrie
1777–1837
A pioneering Anglican churchman in British India, he spent more than 30 years serving as chaplain, missionary, and pastor before becoming the first Bishop of Madras. His journals and letters helped preserve a vivid record of religious life in India in the early 19th century.
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About the author
Born in Ardchattan, Argyll, on April 10, 1777, he was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and ordained in the early 1800s. In 1806 he went to India as a Bengal chaplain, beginning the work that would define the rest of his life.
Over the next three decades, he served in several posts in British India and became closely associated with evangelical Anglican work there. He was a friend and colleague of Henry Martyn, later served as Archdeacon of Calcutta, and in 1835 was appointed the inaugural Bishop of Madras.
He died in Madras on February 5, 1837, only a short time after taking up the bishopric. His life is remembered both through later biographies and through his own correspondence and journals, which offer a firsthand picture of church life, mission work, and colonial India in his era.