Amos Sutton
(1802-1854)
Lamented Missionary of General Baptist Missionary Society, Founder of Baptist Church in Cuttack, Founder of Orissa Mission Press, Founder of Orissa Mission Academy, Founder of Mission Girls School (Now Buckley Girls' High School)
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Amos Sutton (1802 in Sevenoaks in Kent – 17 August 1854 in Cuttack, Odisha) was an English General Baptist missionary to Odisha, India, and hymn writer. He published the first English grammar of the Odia language (1831), a History (1839), and Geography (1840), then the first dictionary of Odia (1841–43), as well as a translation of the Bible (1842–45). He also composed a hymn to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne": "Hail, sweetest, dearest tie, that binds" and wrote a History of the mission to Orissa: the site of the temple of Juggernaut (1835).
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17 August 1854 (aged 52) Cuttack, Odisha
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