John Hands

For the British author, see John Hands (author).

John Hands (5 December 1780 – 30 June 1864 in Dublin^[1]) was a missionary of the London Missionary Society in India and, with William Reeve, translator of one of the first Bible translations into Kannada (1820).^[2][3] Hands founded the mission station in Bellary in 1810, after having failed to establish a base at Seringapatam.^[4][5][6][7]

John Hands.