John Ross (missionary)

He received his education at Fearn School, University of Glasgow and Theological Hall, Edinburgh.

[2] In 1872 he was sent by the Scottish United Presbyterian Mission (Chinese: 蘇格蘭長老會差會) to Northeast China, known at that time as Manchuria.

John Ross, called in Chinese: 羅約翰, went first to Yingkou,[3] then moved to Mukden (the present-day Shenyang) and established a church there in 1889.

He died in Edinburgh and is buried there mid-way along the east side of the main north-south path in Newington Cemetery.

In 1877, John Gilbert Baker named Iris rossii in his honour.