The Church Missionary Society in China was a branch organisation established by the Church Missionary Society (CMS), which was founded in Britain in 1799 under the name the Society for Missions to Africa and the East; as a mission society working with the Anglican Communion, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians around the world. In 1812, the organization was renamed the Church Missionary Society. The missions were financed by the CMS with the local organisation of a mission usually being under the oversight of the Bishop of the Anglican diocese in which the CMS mission operated. Establishing the mission to China Robert Morrison, of the London Missionary Society established a mission in Guangzhou (Canton) in 1808, however the work of Christian missionaries was restricted by the Chinese authorities. After the First Opium War (1839–1842), Hong Kong came under the control of Great Britain and ports on the mainland, including Canton and Shanghai, become open to Europeans. In 1844 the CMS sent the Reverend George Smith (later Bishop of Victoria, H.K.) and the Revd Thomas McClatchie to establish the South China Mission at Shanghai. McClatchie arrived in China, with his family, in 1845 and served nearly forty years until his retirement in 1882; several of his children also stayed in China. Expansion of the mission in China The South China Mission was extended to Zhejiang (Cheh-kiang) province at Ningbo (1848), Fujian (Fuh-Kien) province at Fuzhou (Fuh-Chow) (May 1850), Hong Kong (1862), Guangdong (Kwan-tung) province (1878) and later to Sichuan (Si-chuen; see also Anglicanism in Sichuan) province in south west China (1890). The CMS establish hospitals with William Welton beginning work in Fuh-Chow in 1850; followed by Dr B Van Someren Taylor who trained medical catechists. The CMS operated a large number of dispensary hospitals, whose patients included opium addicts at Ningbo, from 1866, and leprosy patients, such as at Beihai (Pakhoi), from 1890, and Hangzhou (Hangchow), from 1892. Dispensary hospitals were established at the major mission stations, such as Kunming (1913) in Yunnan province. Schools were established at the major mission stations, however the Chinese authorities opposed the missionaries establishing schools at every mission station. The Revd Robert Stewart arrived in 1876 and established a school and college at Fuzhou (Fuh-Chow). In 1873 the Reverend W. Russell was consecrated as bishop of North China and in 1880 the Reverend George Moule was consecrated bishop of Mid-China (Shanghai and Zhejiang (Cheh-kiang) provinces). As the