William Jones Boone Jr. (17 May 1846 – 5 October 1891) was the fourth Anglican missionary bishop of Shanghai.Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity website, William Jones Boone, 1811-1864 Boone was born in Shanghai, son of and namesake of William Jones Boone and his wife Sarah Amelia De Saussure Boone. Australian National University , Open Research section, The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, in China and Japan, 1835-1870, by Ian Welch, Australian National University, 2013, page xvi After his mother's death, he and his brother were taken to the US for their education.Anglican History website, William Jones Boone, D.D.

He studied at Princeton University and attended Virginia Theological Seminary Australian National University , Open Research section, The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, in China and Japan, 1835-1870 by Ian Welch, Australian National University, 2013, page x prior to his ordination to the diaconate in Petersburg, Virginia in 1868. The Foreign Missions Committee appointed him as a missionary to China in 1869. Australian National University , Open Research section, The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, in China and Japan, 1835-1870 by Ian Welch, Australian National University, 2013, page cxvi He was consecrated Bishop of Shanghai on 28 October 1884.

Boone served in Wuchang before retiring to America with ill-health; however, he later decided to return to China to continue his work in Hankow. Internet Archive, The Story of the Church in China, by Arthur R Gray and Arthur M Sherman (1913), page 174

He married Mary Carolina De Saussure Boone and after her death in 1875, he married Henrietta F. Harris Boone. He had three children.

He died of typhoid in 1891.

Works Correspondence in Connection with the Protest against the Consecration of Rev. W. J. Boone as Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in China. Also Letters Referring to the Wretched Management of the Mission (1885)

See also

Protestant missions in China 1807-1953

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