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MEDHURST , See also:WALTER' See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1796-1857), See also:English Congregationalist missionary to See also:China, was See also:born in See also:London and educated at St See also:Paul's school. He learned the business of a printer, and having become interested in See also:Christian See also:missions he sailed in '816 for the London Missionary Society's station at Malacca, which was intended to be a See also:great See also:printing-centre. He became proficient in See also:Malay, in a knowledge of the written characters of See also:Chinese, and in the colloquial use of more than one of its dialects. He was ordained at Malacca in 1819, and engaged in missionary labours, first at See also:Penang, then at See also:Batavia, and finally, when See also:peace was concluded with China in 1842, at See also:Shanghai. There he continued till 1856, laying the See also:foundations of a successful See also:mission. His See also:principal labour for several years, as one of a See also:committee of delegates, was in the revision of existing Chinese versions of the See also:Bible. The result was a version (in High Wen-li) marvellously correct and faithful to the See also:original. With See also:John Stronach he also translated the New Testament into the See also:Mandarin See also:dialect of See also:Nanking. His Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries (each in 2 vols.) are still valuable, and to him the See also:British public owed its understanding of the teaching of Hung-Sew-Tseuen, the See also:leader of the Tai-ping rising (1855—64).
The university of New See also:York conferred upon him in 1843 the degree of D.D. Medhurst See also:left Shanghai in 1856 in failing See also:health, and died two days after reaching London, on the 24th of See also:January 1857. His son, See also:Sir Walter Henry Medhurst (1822-1885), was British See also:consul at See also:Hankow and afterwards at Shanghai.
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