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Robert Terrill Rundle (June 18, 1811 -- February 4, 1896) was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary from England. His most noteworthy activities relate to his missionary work in Western Canada between 1840 and 1848.

Early Life

Rundle was born in Mylor, England in 1811. As the nephew of a Methodist lay minister and grandson of a Methodist preacher, religion, in particular Methodism, was an obvious influence on Rundle's life. Despite his extended family's ties to Methodism, Rundle's father, Robert Rundle Sr., kept his family within the Church of England. Eventually Rundle, attracted to the social compassion aspects of Methodism, left the business school he had been attending for only two years in 1839, and began his missionary training.

Travel to Rupert's Land

In 1840, the Hudson's Bay Company requested that the Wesleyan Missionary Society dispatch several Methodist missionaries to Rupert's Land. The company, particularly its Rupert's Land Governor, George Simpson, felt that the Roman Catholic missionaries already working freely in Rupert's Land were beyond their control, and wanted to recruit new missionaries who would be attached to the company's fur trading posts. Robert Rundle was among the four who were invited, and after only two months of theological training, he was ordained. Just over a week after, on March 8, 1840, he shipped out from Liverpool.

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