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William Pettigrew (missionary)

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|honorific-prefix = Reverand |name = William Pettigrew

|image =

File:William Pettigrew.jpg
Reverend William Pettigrew, Ukhrul, December, 1931

|caption = Reverend William Pettigrew, Ukhrul, December, 1931

|birth_date = (1869-05-January)Expression error: Unrecognized word "january". May 1869Expression error: Unrecognized word "january". |birth_place = Edinburg, Scotland |death_date = {{|1943|19|January|df=y}} |death_place = England |birthname = William Pettigrew |nationality = Scottish English |spouses = Alice Goreham Pettigrew (m.1896 d.1934)

                   = Ethel A. Masales (m. 1934 d. 1980)                                      

| occupation = Christian Missionary

| religion = Baptist Christian | Children = Jessie Melbourn (b. 1897)

                   = Douglas Colin (b. 1898)
                   = Edward William (b. 1902)
                   = Margaret Alice )b. 1905)

William Pettigrew (5 January 1869 – 19 January 1943) was a Sottish-English Christian Missionary who came to India in 1890, eventually introducing western education in Manipur, and converting the Tangkhul Naga Tribe, inhabiting Ukhrul District to Christianity "in masses".[1] [2]