Herbert Kelly

Herbert Hamilton Kelly SSM (18 July 1860 – 31 October 1950), a priest of the Church of England, was the founder of the Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM), an Anglican religious order. As a theologian, Kelly was influenced initially by Charles Kingsley and to more lasting effect by the writings of Frederick Denison Maurice,one of the founders of Christian socialism.

Between 1913 and 1919, Kelly served at the invitation of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Bishops of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai as Professor of Apologetics at the Anglican Central Theological College, Tokyo, Japan.During Kelly's years in Japan, he travelled to visit church communities in Brisbane, Manila and Korea.