Sam Pollard (missionary)

Samuel Pollard
Pollard on furlough
Born	20 April 1864 Camelford, Cornwall, England
Died	16 September 1915(1915-09-16) (aged 51) Weining Yi, Hui, and Miao Autonomous County, Bijie, Guizhou, China

Samuel Pollard (20 April 1864 in Camelford, Cornwall – 16 September 1915 in Weining, Guizhou), known in Chinese as Bo Geli (Chinese: 柏格理; pinyin: Bó Gélǐ) was a British Methodist missionary to China with the China Inland Mission who converted many of the A-Hmao (closely related to the Hmong) in Guizhou to Christianity, and who created a Miao script that is still in use today.