 The society has also given its name "CMS" to a number of daughter organisations around the world, including Australia and New Zealand, which have now become independent.The original proposal for the mission came from Charles Grant and George Uday of the East India Company and the Rev.David Brown, of Calcutta, who sent a proposal in 1787 to William Wilberforce, then a young member of parliament, and Charles Simeon, a young clergyman at Cambridge University.