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The Reverend John Browne Ost succeeded in obtaining a Church Missionary Society post to Hong Kong in 1880 after frequent attacks of severe malaria in the Ningpo area of mainland China. In the Ladies Directory of 1887 Mrs Ost is listed at 5 Bonham Road and at the Church Missionary Society Sanatorium on the Peak in the Summer. John Ost started the Victoria Home and Orphanage. He was recalled to London in 1891 and posted to the Mid-China Mission in Chu-ki. Letters from from John Ost and his wife to the Church Missionary Society are included in Patricia P. K.

He was the Irish curate of Midsomer Norton in Somerset Coalfield, who went to Shanghai with the Reverend George Smith (later Bishop of Victoria in Hong Kong 1849) in 1844 as one of the founders of Church Missionary Society work in China. He became a canon of St John's Cathedral in Hong Kong and later at the Holy Trinity Cathedral at Shanghai. He came with his family and served nearly forty years in China before retiring in 1882. Several of his children stayed on in China.