1837–1909

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Born: Ap­ril 10, 1837, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: No­vem­ber 15, 1909.

Buried: Pan­te­ón del Car­men, Mon­ter­rey, Mex­ico.

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Biography

Thomas was the son of John West­rup, Sr., and Ca­the­rine And­rews Pret­ty, and hus­band of Ma­ría Fran­cis­ca Jus­ti­na Ba­ro­cio On­dar­za.

He ar­rived with his fa­mi­ly in Ve­ra­cruz, Mex­ico, in May 1852. His fa­ther, an en­gin­eer, had a con­tract to build a flour mill on the es­tate of Vic­en­te Dí­az Gol­la­no in San Mi­guel de Al­len­de.

Thomas par­ti­ci­pat­ed in the foun­da­tion of the first ev­an­gel­ic­al church in La­tin Am­eri­ca, in Mon­ter­rey, Mex­ico, in 1864. In 1867, he be­came an agent of the Am­eri­can Bi­ble So­ci­ety.

In 1876, he tra­veled to New York, where the Bap­tist Home Mis­sion So­ci­ety com­mis­sioned him as a mis­sion­ary to Mex­ico.

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