Mervyn Michaelson in 1900.
Mervyn Michaelson (born in 1836) was a Welsh Protestant Reverend and missionary in China during the Boxer Rebellion.
Biography[]
Mervyn Michaelson was born in Wales in 1836. He became a reverend in 1858 and he moved to the British Raj where he spread Christianity among Indians. In 1894, he left India and went to China where he set in Tianjin. In 1900, the city was attacked by the boxers and the Imperial Chinese Army. Michaelson was used as a negociator during a truce at the Siege of Peking. Michaelson gave the message of the Empress Dowager Cixi to the foreign powers to surrender and left Beijing forever but they refused. Michaelson stayed at the Legation Quarter, he believed that the Chinese would have killed him after leaving the Quarter. He stayed with French Catholic priest Father Henri de Bearn at the Orphanage. He survived the siege and went back to Tianjin.