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MORRISON, ROBERT (1782-1834)

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MORRISON, See also:ROBERT (1782-1834) , the first See also:Protestant missionary to See also:China, was See also:born of Scottish parents at See also:Buller's See also:Green, near See also:Morpeth, on the•5th of See also:January 1782. After receiving an elementary See also:education in See also:Newcastle, he was apprenticed to a lastmaker, but his spare See also:hours were given to See also:theology, and in 1803 he was received into the See also:Independent See also:Academy at Hoxton. In the following See also:year he offered his services to the See also:London Missionary Society, and after he had attended See also:David See also:Bogue's See also:college at See also:Gosport and studied See also:Chinese under a native teacher, he was appointed to See also:Canton in 1807. After a year of much hardship he became translator to the See also:East See also:India See also:Company's factory there in 1809, and worked at a Chinese See also:Gram-See also:mar and a See also:translation of the New Testament, both published in 1814. In 1817 he published A View of China for Philological Purposes, and his translation of the Old Testament (in which See also:William Milne collaborated) was completed in the following year. His next enterprise was the See also:establishment (182o) of an Anglo-Chinese college at Malacca for " the reciprocal cultivation of Chinese and See also:European literature." Here too were trained native Chinese evangelists who could proceed to the mainland and carry on See also:Christian See also:work with See also:comparative See also:immunity. In 1821 Morrisons's Chinese See also:Dictionary, in six 4to volumes, a monumental work, was published by the East India Company, at a cost of £12,000. Leaving China at the See also:close of 1823, Morrison spent two years in See also:England, where he was elected a See also:fellow of the Royal Society. Returning to China in 1826, he set himself to promote education and to prepare a Chinese commentary on the See also:Bible and other Christian literature. He died at Canton on the 1st of See also:August 1834. Morrison was admirably fitted for the pioneering work accomplished by his See also:grammar and dictionary; and his establishment of a dispensary, manned by a native who had learned the See also:main principles of European treatment, marks him out as the forerunner of See also:modern medical See also:missions. His See also:Memoirs, compiled by his widow, were published in 1839.

See also R. Lovett, See also:

History of the London Missionary Society, vol. ii. ch. xix. ; C. S. See also:Horne, The See also:Story of the L. M. S. ch. v.; Townsend, Robert Morrison (,888).

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