James William Massie

James William Massie (11 November 1799 – 8 May 1869) was a Scottish nondenominational minister and missionary to India.

He was in Salford, England, until 1848, and then moved to London to become secretary of the Home Missionary Society.

[1] Massie was frequently in Ireland, on revival work, and died in Kingstown, near Dublin.

[1] He was an advocate of free trade, making a celebrated speech for the anti-Cornlaw League in 1842.

[2] He was also an abolitionist, and a member of the union and emancipation societies that were formed during the American Civil War in America.