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Robert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834), was an Anglo-Scottish [2] [3] Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the "Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature".
The purchase of the burial ground was prompted by the death of Mary Morrison, wife of Robert Morrison, missionary and translator employed by the East India Company. Prior to this, the Portuguese authorities had only allowed Roman Catholic burials in the colony.
Robert Morrison died at Guangzhou in 1834. 1835 brought another daughter, Burella Hunter, to the Dyer family at Penang. Samuel then took his family to Malacca to join the London Missionary Society China Mission headquarters. The Dyers established 2 schools, with the curriculum including reading, writing, sewing, and embroidery. [12]
Robert Morrison in 27 years of missionary effort could only report 25 converts and other early missionaries had similar experiences. [18] The pace of conversions picked up with time but by 1900 there were still only 100,000 Chinese Protestant Christians after nearly a century of endeavor by thousands of missionaries. [ 19 ]
In 1824, Robert Morrison moved to East London and taught English women who were interested in missionary work (usually as partners to their husbands) [2] to speak and read Chinese. [3] She studied Chinese under Robert Morrison in London when he was on home leave from 1824 to 1826. Also in attendance were Samuel Dyer and his wife Maria Tarn. The ...
William Milne (April 1785 – 2 June 1822) was the second Protestant missionary sent by the London Missionary Society to China, after his colleague, Robert Morrison. [1] Milne served as pastor of Christ Church, Malacca, a member of Ultra-Ganges Missions, the first Principal of Anglo-Chinese College, and chief editor of two missionary magazines: Indo-Chinese Gleaner (English), and Chinese ...
Robert Morrison (1782–1834) who went to China in 1807; John Smith (1790–1824) was a LMS missionary whose experiences in the West Indies, beginning in 1817, attracted the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce.
Robert Morrison (missionary) (1782–1834), Protestant missionary; Robert Morrison (Phi Delta Theta) (1822–1902), one of the founders of Phi Delta Theta; Bob Morrison (songwriter) (born 1942), American country songwriter; Rob Morrison (journalist), American television journalist and news anchor; Robert Morrison (artist) (1941-2018), American ...