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Robert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834), was an Anglo-Scottish 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".
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.
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Pioneer Protestant missionary to China. Morrison was born in Buller’s Green, Morpeth, Northumberland, England, and grew up at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Following a rudimentary education, he was apprenticed to his father as a last and boot-tree maker. He joined the Presbyterian Church in 1798.
May 29, 2023 · Aboard the vessel was an Anglo-Scot Presbyterian minister named Robert Morrison. He intended to cross the border and go to the city of Canton, where he would begin missionary work among the Chinese people. When others on the ship heard of Morrison’s plans, they were naturally skeptical.
Jan 4, 2016 · The First Protestant Missionary to China. In September 1807, after 113 days at sea, at age 25, Robert Morrison landed at Canton. It was a hostile environment for the Gospel. There were dangers, difficulties and restrictions on every side.
As the London Missionary Society's first missionary to China, Robert Morrison is regarded as the father of Protestant mission work there. He became an important influence in the modernization of China, and helped to build a cultural understanding between the East and the West.
When Robert Morrison, a pioneering Protestant missionary, arrived in 1807, his was a “frontier phase of [Protestant] contact” with China.1 Morrison, dispatched by the London Missionary Society, had to chart his own course for a new mission, which would determine the direction of future Chinese Protestantism.
