James Maxwell

Biography Abstract of Dr. James Laidlaw Maxwell, Junior

1873 Born in Birmingham, England—the second son of Dr. Maxwell and Mary Anne Goodall

1990 Graduated from the University of London

1901 Joined the First Medical Mission with his wife, Millicent Bertha Saunders, a registered nurse; and traveled to Tainan, Taiwan; sponsored by the English Presbyterian medical mission

1908 Published the article, “The Tainan Hospital, Its Story and Needs”

1911 Published the book, “The Diseases of China—including Formosa and Korea” with Dr. W. Hamilton Jeffreys

1914 Undertook the Whole Island Medical Mission Trip in Taiwan, specially attracted to developing a mission plan for native in-landers (the proposal was not approved due to the poor financial situation of his missionary organization)

1915 Left Taiwan, returning to Europe to serve as a physician in the British Field Hospital during World War I

1919 Returned to Taiwan to continue his medical missionary service

1923 Appointed as the Secretary of the China Medical Missionary Association

1923 Moved to Shanghai, China to serve as the Executive Director of the China Medical Association; became the main editor of Chinese Medical Journal and publisher of the book “Prayer Cycle”

1929 Became head of the department of field research at the Lester Institute, Shanghai

1931 Attended the first International Leprosy Association (ILA) conference in Manila as an active member of the ILA

1937 Assumed the position of the Director of the Chinese Red Cross to help all hospitals in central China remain functional during the war with Japan

1940 Returned to Europe due to a severe foot malady

1947 Began limping after undergoing foot surgery

1949 Began working as a physician, specializing in mental disorders and leprosy treatment, in the hospital near the suburbs of Hangzhou, China

1951 Died in Hangzhou due to cerebral malaria; buried in China