Eugene Stock

Born in 1836, Eugene Stock was an English author, editor, and historian best known for his long association with the Church Missionary Society. He served the society for many years, including as editorial secretary, and became one of its most important interpreters for a wider reading public.

Stock wrote biographies, historical works, and studies of missionary activity, often focusing on Anglican figures and institutions. Among his best-known achievements is his major history of the Church Missionary Society, a work valued for its detail and for the way it captures the expansion of Protestant missions during the Victorian and early modern period.

He died in 1928, leaving behind a large body of writing that still interests readers of church history, biography, and global missions. His work remains especially useful for anyone curious about how religious organizations recorded their own history and presented it to readers of his time.