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1800 களில் வாதிரியார் நெசவாளர்களுக்கு தொழில் கொடுத்து நிலம் வழங்கியவர் .
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An East India Company merchant called Samuel Sawyer was stationed in Palayamkottai where he prospered. He donated sufficient money to a group of Christians converted by Raja Clorinda (Miscellany, March 8, 2010) and who had settled south of the River Tamprabarni in the South Tiruchendur Taluk. In the face of difficulties there they wanted to move — and so they used Sawyer's donation to buy 150 acres ten miles southwest of Tuticorin and north of the River Tamprabarni in 1815. When Sawyer died the next year, the villagers named their settlement Sawyerpuram. And it was to this village that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) sent Pope on his first assignment soon after arriving from England.
Pope arrived in Sawyerpuram in 1842, to establish a new headquarters of the SPG in the Madras Presidency's southern districts which it took over in 1826 after the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) decided it was too far stretched and decided to concentrate on the Presidency's northern districts. In 1843-1844 he cleared the jungle nearby and established a seminary there that flourished for several years, becoming a Second Grade College of the University of Madras.
The College was moved by Bishop Caldwell to Tuticorin, where too it struggled and was then moved to Trichinopoly where it now thrives as Bishop Heber College. Meanwhile, in Sawyerpuram, which Pope left in 1850 for Tanjore, the middle school Bishop Caldwell had left there as a substitute for the college grew into a high school by 1930. Today, Sawyerpuram, a town panchayat, has several educational institutions remembering George Uglow Pope. They are: Pope Memorial Higher Secondary School for Boys; Pope's College, a postgraduate, co-ed institution with hostel facilities; Pope's College of Engineering; and Pope's College of Education (graduate teacher training). Will Sawyerpuram one day host a Pope University?
Pope's contribution to Tamil is well-remembered, even with a statue on the Marina. But Sawyerpuram and what his mission there started is little known outside Tirunelveli District.
1800 களில் வாதிரியார் நெசவாளர்களுக்கு தொழில் கொடுத்து நிலம் வழங்கியவர் .
சாமுவேல் சாயர்
An East India Company merchant called Samuel Sawyer was stationed in Palayamkottai where he prospered. He donated sufficient money to a group of Christians converted by Raja Clorinda (Miscellany, March 8, 2010) and who had settled south of the River Tamprabarni in the South Tiruchendur Taluk. In the face of difficulties there they wanted to move — and so they used Sawyer's donation to buy 150 acres ten miles southwest of Tuticorin and north of the River Tamprabarni in 1815. When Sawyer died the next year, the villagers named their settlement Sawyerpuram. And it was to this village that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) sent Pope on his first assignment soon after arriving from England.
Pope arrived in Sawyerpuram in 1842, to establish a new headquarters of the SPG in the Madras Presidency's southern districts which it took over in 1826 after the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) decided it was too far stretched and decided to concentrate on the Presidency's northern districts. In 1843-1844 he cleared the jungle nearby and established a seminary there that flourished for several years, becoming a Second Grade College of the University of Madras.
The College was moved by Bishop Caldwell to Tuticorin, where too it struggled and was then moved to Trichinopoly where it now thrives as Bishop Heber College. Meanwhile, in Sawyerpuram, which Pope left in 1850 for Tanjore, the middle school Bishop Caldwell had left there as a substitute for the college grew into a high school by 1930. Today, Sawyerpuram, a town panchayat, has several educational institutions remembering George Uglow Pope. They are: Pope Memorial Higher Secondary School for Boys; Pope's College, a postgraduate, co-ed institution with hostel facilities; Pope's College of Engineering; and Pope's College of Education (graduate teacher training). Will Sawyerpuram one day host a Pope University?
Pope's contribution to Tamil is well-remembered, even with a statue on the Marina. But Sawyerpuram and what his mission there started is little known outside Tirunelveli District.
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