Quotations about the Reverend Dr Claudius Buchanan

"Dr. Claudius Buchanan, the evangelical vice-provost of the college, was dismissed, and afterwards he launched a polemical campaign against the East India Company." Macropolitics of Nineteenth-century Literature: Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism Duke University Press, 1995  p.131

"Claudius Buchanan has been credited with playing the decisive role in opening India to Christian missions in the early years of the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, however, he was largely forgotten." Wilbert Schenk The legacy of Claudius Buchanan 1994

"Dr. Buchanan was an eminent instrument, raised up of God, and honoured by him, to do much for the kingdom of our Lord Christ in India, and to give a great impulse to the missionary spirit that had been kindled in our own country."  E. Bickersteth in Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Claudius Buchanan. Hugh Nicholas Pearson (Dean of Salisbury.) R. B. Seeley & W. Burnside, 1834  page iii

"Among those who can justly appreciate distinguished worth, genuine piety, and enlarged and active philanthrophy, there can surely be but one opinion-that Dr. Buchanan was "a burning and a shining light," and a signal blessing to the nations of the East. We may, indeed, safely leave his eulogy to be pronounced by future generations in Great Britain and Hindostan, who will vie with each other in doing honour to his memory, and unite in venerating him as one of the best benefactors of mankind; as having laboured to impart to those who in a spiritual sense are  poor indeed, a treasure Transcending in its worth, The gems of India.”'  Pearson p.436

"... British Anglican chaplain Claudius Buchanan, whose Christian Researches in Asia (1811) inspired the first generation of American Protestant missionaries to the Middle East.’ Constructing Mission History: Missionary Initiative and Indigenous Agency in the Making of World Christianity Stanley H. Skreslet Fortress Press, 2023 page 209

"It need scarcely be added, that the zeal of Dr. Buchanan had been mainly directed to the conversion of the natives of India. In no very long time after he had planted his feet upon that burning soil, he seems to have felt himself called to plead the cause of that benighted country. For a certain time his exertions were chiefly confined to the sphere in which he moved in India. But at length he deemed it right to endeavour to draw the attention of his countrymen in Europe, to the state of the East." The Christian Observer 1816

"It is deeply to be lamented, that the college of Fort William, sustained with so much care and ability by Buchanan, who dearly loved it, should have been suffered to decline utterly a capital error of the East India Company. A more important and influential institution, full of splendid promise and certain success, has rarely existed in any part of the earth." Lives of Eminent Missionaries, Volume 2 John Carne Fisher, 1833