Jehu Lewis Shuck 淑士人, Protestant minister, was recorded as a resident of Hong Kong in 1845. Shuck, a Virginia Baptist minister, was a missionary belonged to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and was sent to Macau in 1836. Shuck, together with Jame White were the first co-editors of the Friend of China, a newspaper funded and controlled by Quakers.
Shuck was born in 1812 and died in 1863.
Shuck wrote the following in his journal, when describing the slaughter of Chinese soldiers by British navy and marines during the First Opium War, “I regard such scenes... as the direct instruments of the Lord in clearing away the rubbish which impedes the advancement of Divine Truth.”
Selected Bibliography: A List of the Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese, The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, March 13, 1845, p.1. Tarrent, William, The Hong Kong Almanack and Directory for the Year 1846, 1848, 1850, Hong Kong: China Mail, resp. 1846, 1848 and 1850.
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