Henry Beddy

Henry Beddy and his wife were appointed in 1831 as BMS missionaries, working primarily in Patna, India; he retired in 1849. In 1842, over 1100 printed scriptures in Bengali were distributed in Patna by Beddy. The Annual Report noted that Beddy “labours not without success. The present number of members is twenty. Hindustani service is conducted in the chapel every morning; and, in addition to general prayer-meetings, one female prayer meeting is held. The boy’s school has been relinquished for want of a teacher; but a Female Orphan Refuge has been commenced, as well as a Sunday School.” See Annual Report of the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society (London: J. Haddon, 1842) 19, 22; also E. Daniel Potts, British Baptist Missionaries in India, 1793-1837  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967), 246.