1701
1710
1736-37
1766
1796
1820-1900
1828-1884
1856
1857
1870
1877
1880s
1895-1905
1930
1954-1962
1965
1970s and 1980s
1985
2000
2016
2023
1701
Under the initiative of The Revd Thomas Bray, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) was first incorporated under Royal Charter in 1701 as the high church missionary organisation of the Church of England.