Elijah Hoole

He was recalled to Madras in March 1822, and was elected a member of the committee for revising the Tamil version of the Bible.

[1] In 1828 Hoole was forced by ill-health to leave India, and shortly after his return to Europe was appointed a superintendent of schools in Ireland.

He moved to London in 1834, and became assistant-secretary, and from 1836 till his death one of the general secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Society.

During his stay in Southern India, Hoole published a number of translations into Tamil, including portions of the Bible, a book of hymns (Madras, 1825), tracts on Methodism, and a life of John Wesley.

He wrote:[1] Hoole also contributed articles to the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and London Quarterly Review, and edited two books on missions by Walter Lawry, 1850 and 1851.