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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Ringeltaube    
First Name(s)  William Tobias    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Rev.    
Birth Year  1770    
Death Year  ?    
Entry  Missionary : son of Gottlieb Ringeltaube, Vicar, near Brieg in Silesia : born, there, Aug. 8, 1770 : educated at Halle, from 1789 : ordained by the S.P.C.K. as Missionary to Calcutta, where he arrived, Oct. 1797 : returned to England, 1799 : went out, via Copenhagen in 1804, for the London Missionary Society to the Mission at Tranquebar, in Travancore : became a pioneer of Mission work : took charge of the Tinnevelly Mission, and removed, 1806, to Palamcotta ; visited Tuticorin, Cochin, and scattered congregations in the South of India : toured also and preached to the converts at Madura, Trichinopoly, Ramnad, etc. : left the S.P.C.K., Tinnevelly, and returned to Travancore, 1807 : during the Tranvacore war of 1808-9 his life was in danger : built the first Protestant church at Mylandy, 1809, and churches in six other places : toured constantly : fell ill in 1815 : left Quilon in Feb. 1816, making over the Travancore Protestant Mission to his Catechist, Vedamanickam : from Madras he went to Ceylon and Malacca, and was never seen again.     
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