was an independent missionary and an avowed "dissenter" against the established church. As a way out of financial hardship, Bausum at different times considered working with the Episcopalians, the Presbyterians and the Anglicans, but could not come to any agreement with them or chose not to compromise his beliefs. He later received some support from the China Evangelization Society founded by the famous Charles Gützlaff. Like Gützlaff in China, Bausum in Penang carried on his one-man mission without funding or interference from any church. In 1847, Bausum wrote to inform the LMS that he had purchased a parcel of land to expand the school at his own expense, which was intended as an addition to the girls' school, but the land was never transferred to the control of the LMS directors. Following Bausum's death in 1855, the mission premises at Farquhar Street came under the temporary charge of one "G. Gottlieb" – the Harbour Master George Felix Gottlieb, a fellow German. His letter to the LMS in London, dated January 1860, records the arrival of the Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, whom many regard as the first Brethren missionaries in the Straits Settlements. During Bausum's time, the Chapel became a well-known gathering place for independent Protestants and non-denominational missionaries in the region. When the LMS wanted to sell off their mission properties, G. F. Gottlieb wrote to advise that a portion of the land on which the girl's school stood now belonged to Bausum's second wife, who had since remarried and was now known as Mrs. Lord. Moreover, a group of petitioners in Penang argued that the LMS had no right to sell the properties because they in part been paid for with donations collected to support the work in Penang. In 1870, the LMS directors sold off the chapel and other properties, but the Brethren managed to hang on to the site purchased by Bausum, and built a new Chapel there in 1876. References 1812 births German Protestant missionaries 1855 deaths Protestant missionaries in Malaysia Protestant missionaries in Singapore