 By Harriett;
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John Philip (missionary)

Dr John Philip (14 April 1775 – 27 August 1851), was a missionary in South Africa.Philip was born at Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland to a local schoolmaster.After starting as an apprentice to a linen draper in Leven, and working as a clerk in Dundee, he entered the Wesleyan theological college at Hoxton, and in 1804 was appointed minister of the first Scottish Congregational chapel in Aberdeen.