Daniel John Gogerly (25 August 1792 – 6 September 1862) was a British Wesleyan Methodist missionary and scholar, who served in Ceylon and provided one of the first translations of the Pāli text into English.
Gogerly became an apprentice printer and came to the attention of Richard Watson who convinced him to join the staff of the newly formed "Mission to Asia".
[5] On 18 September 1822 he married Anna Joanna Susanna née van Lynden, the widow of Jean Guillaume, with whom he had two children, Daniel (b.
[4] Gogerly's publications, mainly essays and translations were published in a number of local periodicals, including the Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,[3] of which he served as the Secretary, vice-president, and President (1858).
[6] Gogerly's scholarly work was however not motivated by a sympathetic attitude to Buddhist teachings but rather he undertook the translations in order to provide evidence demonstrating the superiority of Christianity.