Cambridge Seven
The Cambridge Seven were seven students from Cambridge University and one from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, who in 1885, decided to become missionaries to China through the China Inland Mission. The seven were: Charles Thomas Studd Montagu Harry Proctor Beauchamp Stanley P. Smith Dixon Edward Hoste Arthur T. Polhill-Turner Cecil H. Polhill-Turner William Wharton Cassels == Preparations in Britain == During the Victorian era (1837–1901) a growing number of students at the University of Cambridge became interested in serving overseas as missionaries, clergyman, educators, physicians, and linguists.