James Peggs

James Peggs (1793-1850), along with William Bampton, was a pioneer of the English General Baptists missionary to Cuttack, then-capital city of Orissa, to evangelize Odia people(present Odia people).

As a pamphleteer, he extensively circulated the Pilgrim tax levied on Idolaters going on pilgrimages and horrible practice of Sati in then-Bengal, soliciting the notice of Britishers justifying the Colonialism and Evangelism among the heathens—not Christians nor Jews.

James Peggs, a student of G.B. Academy at Wisbeach, offered himself to the General Baptist Missionary Society, for missionary service in 1820. With delay in prior designed plans to travel India for missionary service along with William Ward, one of the Serampore Trio, he moved to London in 1820 and obtained acquaintance with British system of education along with Mrs. Bampton, while Bampton acquired some knowledge in Medicine. He was ordained on 15 May 1821 at Loughborough along with Bampton, attended by William Ward too in the service, and sailed to India on 29 May 1821 along with Ward, Bampton, fellow-missionary, and their wives.

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