Robert Morrison
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 191 years ago |
| Date of birth | January 5,1782 |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Born | Morpeth |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | August 1,1834 |
| Died | Guangzhou |
| China | |
| Spouse | Eliza Morrison |
| Mary Morrison | |
| Children | John Robert Morrison |
| George S. Morrison | |
| Job | Translator |
| Missionary | |
| Writer | |
| Lexicographer | |
| Education | Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry |
| Books | Vocabulary of the Canton Dialect |
| Chinese Miscellany | |
| A Grammar of the Chinese Language | |
| Translations from the Original Chinese: With Notes | |
| A dictionary of the Chinese language: in three parts, part the first containing Chinese and English, arranged according to the radicals, part the second, Chinese and English arranged alphabetically and part the third English and Chinese | |
| A Dictionary of the Chinese Language | |
| Horæ Sinicæ: Translations from the Popular Literature of the Chinese | |
| A Parting Memorial: Consisting of Miscellaneous Discourses, Written and Preached in China, at Singapore, on Board Ship at Sea, in the Indian Ocean, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in England; With Remarks on Missions . . | |
| Parents | James Morrison |
| Hannah Nicholson | |
| Buried | Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau, Macau, Macao |
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| ID | 485281 |
Robert Morrison Life story
Robert Morrison, FRS, 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".
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