George Carleton Lacy

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George Carleton Lacy
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
BornDecember 28, 1888
Qing dynasty Fuzhou, China
DiedDecember 11, 1951(1951-12-11) (aged 62)
China Fuzhou, China
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George Carleton Lacy (

Methodist missionary and the last Methodist Bishop in Mainland China
.

Life

Early years and education

George Carleton Lacy was born on December 28, 1888, in

doctor of divinity in Garrett in 1928.[3]

Missionary life

Carleton Lacy had several pastorates in

Jiangxi Province in 1916-1917 and 1919-1920, and president of William Nast College, Jiujiang
(原南伟烈大学，现九江同文中学).

In 1921 Lacy was loaned by the Methodist Board of Missions to the

Zion's Herald and The Christian Century.[2][3]

Lacy was named in 1921 agency secretary of the

Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University in New York while on furlough. In 1935 he was appointed member of the Joint Commission on the Unity of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Methodist Episcopal Church, South in China.[2]

In 1941 Lacy was elected Bishop of the China Central Conference and was assigned to Fuzhou.[1][5] When his episcopal area was occupied by Japanese troops he traveled extensively in inland China.[2]

Death

Carleton Lacy's tenure as Bishop was set to end in 1949 but the advent of the

heart ailment at Union Hospital, Foochow (福州協和醫院) on December 11, 1951.[4][7][8] Lacy was buried in the Foochow Mission Cemetery with an unmarked tombstone, and his cook was the only one permitted to attend his funeral.[6][9] In 1956 his remains were exhumed and paraded through the streets by Communist zealots.[original research?
]

Family

George Carleton met Harriet Lang Boutelle, who had come to Canton as a YWCA secretary.[10] They married on June 26, 1918, in Chelsea, Massachusetts.[11]

Carleton Lacy's son, Creighton Boutelle "Corky" Lacy, was a long-time professor of World Christianity at the

Nanking University, Bible at Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow, theology at Union Theological School, Foochow, and finally, along with other missionaries, was expelled from China in December 1950, returning to Yale University where he finished his Ph.D. in Christian Social Ethics in 1953. After graduation they moved to Durham, North Carolina, where Creighton Lacy was a professor in the Duke Divinity School until 1991. On October 8, 2010, Creighton Lacy died in Durham, North Carolina, at age 91.[2][12]

Daughter Eleanor Maie Lacy was born in Shanghai on Dec. 8, 1927.[11]

Selected works

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-313-26788-8
    p.289
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Yale Finding Aid Database: Guide to the Lacy Family Papers". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
  3. ^
    The Evening Independent
    , February 23, 1945
  4. ^
    New York Times
    , December 20, 1951, p.31
  5. ^ Historical Record of Bishops, United Methodist Church
  6. ^ a b c Caldwell, John C. (1953): China Coast Family
  7. ISBN 978-1-4343-1845-9
  8. ^ Bishop Lacy, Here in 1919, Dies in Foochow, China, The Portsmouth Times, December 27, 1951
  9. ^ a b Lacy, George Carleton & Lacy, Walter Nind (1951): The Story of the Foochow Foreign Cemeteries
  10. ^ "Harriet Lang Boutelle 1908". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-04-29.
  11. ^ a b Report of Birth of Children Born to American Parents, American Consular Service; 1919, 1928
  12. ^ "Obituaries, Oct. 10, 2010, Durham". Archived from the original on 2010-10-17. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
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