William Spence Urquhart

William Spence Urquhart (8 May 1877 – 16 July 1964) was a Scottish religious scholar, Christian missionary and academic in India.

Robert Urquhart, a minister of the Free Church of Scotland at Old Meldrum, and Mary Jane Spence.

Under the influence of George Smith, and against the advice of academic contacts, he chose to become a missionary in Calcutta.

[5] Subhas Chandra Bose attended Scottish Church College from 1919, and Urquhart is reported by Schmidt to have spoken for his admission.

[5] Urquhart founded the Philosophical Society at Scottish Church College and established links with the Indian YMCA.

[5] On 20 December 1905, Urquhart married Margaret Macaskill, a missionary in Calcutta, the daughter of the Rev.

[7][4][10] She published in 1925 Women of Bengal – A Study of the Hindu Pardanasins of Calcutta, including some discussion of the feminist movement in India;[11][12][13] and Amiya, a Bengali Girl (juvenile literature, 1930).