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George Leslie Mackay (馬偕)

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George Leslie Mackay (馬偕)

George Leslie Mackay (偕叡理 / 馬偕, 21 March 1844 – 2 June 1901) was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary, the first Presbyterian missionary to northern Taiwan (Tamsui, 1872). In Taiwan he is 馬偕博士. Not |James Laidlaw Maxwell (馬雅各).

Identity Snapshot

  • English: George Leslie Mackay
  • Chinese: 馬偕 / 偕叡理
  • Born: 21 March 1844, Ontario, Canada
  • Died: 2 June 1901, Tamsui, Taiwan
  • Sent by: Canadian Presbyterian Mission
  • Field: Northern Taiwan, 1872–1901
  • Not: Macdonald · Maxwell · 馬雅各

Timeline

  • 1872 — Arrived Tamsui; first Presbyterian missionary in the north
  • 1872 — Maxwell (already in the south) advised him to start near Tamsui (EN Wikipedia)
  • 1901-06-02 — Died in Tamsui
  • 2022 — 馬偕博士台灣宣教150週年; |GSTPC joined a SoCal TPC mark (6 Mar)

Works / institutions (named for him)

  • 馬偕紀念醫院 (Mackay Memorial Hospital)
  • Northern mission that became part of |PCT

Family

  • Son: 偕叡廉 — appears as 《教會史話》entry 501 (per the |laijohn.com TOC noted below)

Deeper vault record

  • 1871 — left Canada at age 27, first reaching Kaohsiung, then landed at Tamsui on 1872-03-09 (per [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys274|TAH Our Journeys #274]])
  • Descendant: 馬偕第四代孫 柯威霖 (train engineer → NASA scientist), obituary profile [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-830|TAH #830, 04/2022]]
  • Institutions tracing to him (per the |PCT page): Oxford College (1882) → Aletheia University; Mackay Medical College · Mackay Nursing School · Mackay Memorial Hospital branches across northern Taiwan

《教會史話》 (titles only)

Laijohn TOC: 51 馬偕-title hits (not listed). Son 偕叡廉 = 史話 501. Bodies not archived. Site also has /Mackay/ scrap cluster (not v2).

Role in the Community (deepen 09141213-16)

Corpus memoirs that carry his legacy into the Taiwanese American community record:

  • Medical-mission lineage invoked by NATMA volunteers — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys274||TAH Our Journeys #274]] places Mackay (with 蘭大衛/連瑪玉 of 彰化基督教醫院) as the forebear of the NATMA 國際義診團 movement: the author, moved by the missionaries’ example, joined 6 NATMA international free-clinic trips from 2005 (incl. 2015 Guatemala, 3,058 人次, 53 surgeries).
  • Subject of community arts — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys277||TAH Our Journeys #277]]: the UW-Milwaukee 台灣布袋戲團 staged 《馬偕醫生的故事》at its 10th anniversary (2007), teaching Mackay’s story as part of Taiwanese culture in the US.
  • Mentor line into the church — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-392||TAH Our Journeys #392]]: 王成章牧師 (b. 1935 宜蘭)‘s grandfather, 傳道師王春生, was Mackay’s student — linking him to the Presbyterian families later active in North America (北美基督教協會).
  • Vantage point in Taiwan medical history — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys291||TAH Our Journeys #291]] (黃哲陽): Mackay (north) paired with 馬雅各 (south, 1865) as the dual origin of Western medicine in Taiwan, the seedbed the later 醫師出國潮 grew from.
  • His hospital as community venue — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74||TAH Our Journeys #74]] / |EN: the NATPA×NATMA 10th-anniversary joint meeting was held at 馬偕紀念醫院 Taipei in Aug 1990; [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys47||Our Journeys #47]] records 馬偕醫院 proposed as 1990 annual-meeting venue.
  • Family memoir coverage — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys270||TAH Our Journeys #270]] discusses 馬偕家族 and early church-connected scholars who went to North America to study (林淑卿、蕭永真、劉淑媛).

Network

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: George Leslie Mackay
  2. 維基百科：馬偕
  3. |PCT page (1872 northern mission)
  4. |laijohn.com
  • |馬雅各
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys274||TAH Our Journeys #274 — 1871 年 27 歲離加、經高雄、1872-03-09 登淡水]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-830||TAH #830（04/2022）— 馬偕第四代孫 柯威霖：火車司機員到 NASA 科學家]]
  • |史料庫
  • |laijohn.com

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