Ardclach, Memorial

Memorial to Rev. Donald Mitchell, Ardclach

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN MEMORY OF

THE REV. DONALD MITCHELL, M.A.

BORN 1792. SON OF THE

PARISH MINISTER HERE.

HE WAS SCOTLAND'S FIRST

MISSIONARY TO INDIA

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A MEMORIAL SIMILAR TO THIS MARKS HIS GRAVE AT

POLADPUR, INDIA, WHERE HE DIED 1823. TODAY THERE IS A

CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THE EPROSARIUM THERE, MAINTAINED BY

THE MISSION TO LEPERS, AND SUPERVISED BY THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

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ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION AND UNVEILED BY

A. DONALD MILLER, K.I.H., M.B.E., OF THE MISSION TO LEPERS, 1961.

Information from M Briscoe, 16 July 2015