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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".
This is list of scholarly, missionary and other works by Robert Morrison (missionary): Robert Morrison (1812). Horae Sinicae: Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese. London. Robert Morrison (1813). Hsin i Chao Shu; Robert Morrison (1815). Translations from the Original Chinese, with Notes. Canton. Robert Morrison (1815). A ...
Robert Morrison (1782-1834) is credited with several historical firsts in addition to the first bidirectional Chinese and English dictionary. He was the first Protestant missionary in China, started the first Chinese-language periodical in 1815, [5] collaborated with William Milne to write the first translation of the Bible into Chinese in 1823, helped to found the English-language The Canton ...
For Robert Morrison and the first missionaries who followed him, life in China consisted of being confined to Portuguese Macao and the Thirteen Factories trading ghetto in Guangzhou (then known as "Canton") with only the reluctant support of the East India Company and confronting opposition from the Chinese government and from the Jesuits who had been established in China for more than a century.
The first Protestant missionary to China, Robert Morrison on the LMS in 1807, was only able to reach the edge of China in either the port of Canton or Macao.However, as China was closed to foreigners at the time, subsequent LMS missionaries established in the British and Dutch colonial region of the "Ultra Ganges" (literally, beyond the Ganges River), the Southeast Asian territories of Melaka ...
Liang helped Robert Morrison's son-in-law Benjamin Hobson locate a residence and establish his clinic in Guangzhou's western suburbs in 1848. Liang then moved his work there, since it began to treat more than two hundred patients daily. Four men and six women joined him for services, but more than a hundred might watch their ceremony. [1]
Famous LMS missionaries included: 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, of the London Missionary Society, established a mission in Guangzhou (Canton) in 1808; however, the work of Christian missionaries was restricted by the Chinese authorities. After the First Opium War (1839–1842), Hong Kong came under the control of Great Britain and ports on the mainland, including Canton and Shanghai ...