Kingdon, John (BMS Missionary)

John Kingdon (d. 1855) was originally from Devizes. He studied at Bristol Academy and began his work as a BMS missionary in Jamaica in 1831, serving initially at Savannah-la-Mar. Like many of the other BMS missionaries in Jamaica, he too was imprisoned in 1832-1833. Afterwards, he labored mostly in Machioneal until 1845, when he returned to England. He later served in Belize and Liberia (in collaboration with the Southern American Missionary Society), where he died in 1855. See John Clarke, Memorials of the Baptist Missionaries in Jamaica (London: Yates and Alexander, 1869), 156-159.