A Bible Christian family which included three ministers and two missionaries.
Richard Squire, born on 25 April 1850 at Frithelstock, Devon, entered the ministry in 1873 and died in 1931. His son Ernest Richard Squire, born at Faversham in 1883, entered the BC ministry in 1903 and died on 19 April 1960. Another son, Harold Hearn Squire born at Redruth in December 1900, entered the UM ministry in 1924 but died on 20 October 1930.
Two daughters became evangelical and educational missionaries in Yunnan, China. Ethel Maud Squire (born 7 February 1881, graduated at London University, died 9 May 1977) and her sister Letitia ('Lettie') Olive (12 July 1879 - 21 December 1975),
Both sisters graduated at London University, became teachers and volunteered for work in the Yunnan mission in South West China.
Ethel Maud Squire was appointed in 1903 to Chaotung and was associated with the Girls School until 1919. Her sister Lettie Olive Squire followed in 1908 in response to an appeal from Mrs Sam Pollard. She taught with her sister and took her place when Maud was invalided from the work in 1919. They were pioneers in the emancipation of women, China's greatest change for centuries, establishing their school at a time when girls' education was unheard of and foot-binding was universal. Lettie retired in 1939, but stayed on in China until forced out in 1951 by the coming of Communism. The sisters retired to East Anglia, where Letitia died in 1975 and Maud in 1977.