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Thomas Cochrane

1866–1953

A physician, medical missionary, and writer, he worked in China and Korea and wrote about both medicine and Christian mission. His surviving books suggest a practical mind interested in how institutions, health care, and missionary work could be organized more effectively.

1 Audiobook

Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions

Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions

by Roland Allen, Thomas Cochrane

About the author

Born in 1866 and dying in 1953, Thomas Cochrane appears in available records as a doctor who also wrote on missionary and medical subjects. Reliable online sources available here connect him with the book Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions, written with Roland Allen, and identify him as a physician rather than a novelist or poet.

The material I could confirm points to a career shaped by service overseas, especially in East Asia. A scholarly source on medical missions in China discusses Thomas Cochrane in the context of British medical missionary work, which fits the practical, organizational tone of the writing linked to his name.

I wasn't able to confirm many personal details from the sources retrieved in this session, so this overview stays close to what can be supported. No suitable portrait of him was clearly available from the pages I checked.