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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".
Together they completed the translation of the entire bible in 1819. Morrison’s wife died in 1821, and he returned to Great Britain in 1823 with a collection of several thousand Chinese books, which were eventually deposited with University College, London.
On 1834, August 1st he passed away in sickness. Countless believers of all kinds cried in remembrance at the death bed of Mr. Morrison. He died in the hope that one hundred years later the Gospel he planted would grow ten-thousand fold, to places the eyes can see, to reach out to all the peoples.
May 29, 2023 · Morrison died on August 1, 1834, at the age of fifty-two, from a fever and exhaustion. He was buried next to his first wife, Mary, and infant son, James, at the Protestant cemetery in Macao. His grave can still be visited today. This article is part of the Missionary Biographies collection.
Robert Morrison (born Jan. 5, 1782, Buller’s Green, Northumberland, Eng.—died Aug. 1, 1834, Canton, China) was a Presbyterian minister, translator, and the London Missionary Society’s first missionary to China; he is considered the father of Protestant mission work there.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Died. August 1, 1834. Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland; died August 1, 1834 in Canton) was a Scottish missionary, and the first Protestant missionary in China. At the age of 16 he joined the Presbyterian church and decided that he wanted to become a missionary, and ...
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In 1953 the name Morrison Academy was adopted in honor of Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary in China. His example of faith, discipline, and scholarship has been the school’s ideal. This article was researched and written by Connie Yang (Class of 2003) while she was a sixth grader at the Bethany Campus located in Taipei.
