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John Robert Morrison, the Glossary

John Robert Morrison (17 April 1814 – 29 August 1843) was a British interpreter and colonial official in China.^[1]

38 relations: British Hong Kong, Broadway expedition, Chief Secretary for Administration, Classical Chinese, Cochinchina, East India Company, Eastern Western Monthly Magazine, Edmund Roberts (diplomat), Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Executive Council of Hong Kong, First Opium War, Frederick Bruce (diplomat), George Alexander Malcolm, George Chinnery, Guangzhou, Henry Pottinger, Hong Xiuquan, Karl Gützlaff, Legislative Council of Hong Kong, London Missionary Society, Malacca, Malaria, Manchester, Medical Missionary Society of China, Mill Hill School, Netherlands Missionary Society, Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau), Portuguese Macau, Protestantism, Qing dynasty, Robert Morrison (missionary), Robert Thom (translator), Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Dyer, Taiping Rebellion, Thailand, Treaty of Nanking, Walter Henry Medhurst.
Chief Secretaries of Hong Kong
Translators of the Bible into Chinese

British Hong Kong

Hong Kong was a colony and later a dependent territory of the United Kingdom from 1841 to 1997, apart from a period of Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945 during the Pacific War.

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Broadway expedition

The Broadway expedition was a British military expedition that explored the Broadway River (present-day Xi River) in Guangdong province, China, on 13–15 March 1841 during the First Opium War.

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Chief Secretary for Administration

The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. John Robert Morrison and Chief Secretary for Administration are Chief Secretaries of Hong Kong.

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Classical Chinese

Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from.

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Cochinchina

Cochinchina or Cochin-China (Đàng Trong (17th–18th centuries), Việt Nam (1802–1831), Đại Nam (1831–1862), Nam Kỳ (1862–1945); Kosăngsin; Cochinchine) is a historical exonym for part of Vietnam, depending on the contexts.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.

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Eastern Western Monthly Magazine

Eastern Western Monthly Magazine was the inaugural modern-age Chinese language magazine first published on August 1, 1833 in Canton (Guangzhou), China by the Prussian Protestant Missionary Karl Gützlaff at a time when foreign missionaries risked strangulation or deportation.

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Edmund Roberts (diplomat)

Edmund Roberts (June 29, 1784 – June 12, 1836) was an American diplomat.

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Elijah Coleman Bridgman

Elijah Coleman Bridgman (April22, 1801November2, 1861) was the first American Protestant Christian missionary appointed to China. John Robert Morrison and Elijah Coleman Bridgman are translators of the Bible into Chinese.

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Executive Council of Hong Kong

The Executive Council of Hong Kong (ExCo) is the cabinet of the Government of Hong Kong, acting as a formal body of advisers to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong that serves as a core policy-making organ assisting the Chief Executive. John Robert Morrison and Executive Council of Hong Kong are Members of the Executive Council of Hong Kong.

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First Opium War

The First Opium War, also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842.

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Frederick Bruce (diplomat)

Sir Frederick William Adolphus Wright-Bruce, GCB (14 April 1814 – 19 September 1867) was a British diplomat. John Robert Morrison and Frederick Bruce (diplomat) are Chief Secretaries of Hong Kong.

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George Alexander Malcolm

General George Alexander Malcolm, CB (21 January 1810 – 2 June 1888), was a British Army officer. John Robert Morrison and George Alexander Malcolm are Chief Secretaries of Hong Kong.

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George Chinnery

George Chinnery (5 January 1774 – 30 May 1852) was an English painter who spent most of his life in Asia, especially India and southern China.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Henry Pottinger

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pottinger, 1st Baronet, (3 October 1789 – 18 March 1856), was an Anglo-Irish soldier and colonial administrator from Ulster who became the first Governor of Hong Kong.

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Hong Xiuquan

Hong Xiuquan (1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary and religious leader who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty.

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Karl Gützlaff

Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff (8 July 1803 – 9 August 1851), anglicised as Charles Gutzlaff, was a German Lutheran missionary to the Far East, notable as one of the first Protestant missionaries in Bangkok, Thailand (1828) and in Korea (1832). John Robert Morrison and Karl Gützlaff are translators of the Bible into Chinese.

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Legislative Council of Hong Kong

The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, colloquially known as LegCo, is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong.

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London Missionary Society

The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams.

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Malacca

Malacca (Melaka), officially the Historic State of Malacca (Melaka Negeri Bersejarah), is a state in Malaysia located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, facing the Strait of Malacca.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Medical Missionary Society of China

The Medical Missionary Society in China was a Protestant medical missionary society established in Canton, China, in 1838.

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Mill Hill School

Mill Hill School is a 13–18 co-educational private, day and boarding school in Mill Hill, London, England that was established in 1807.

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Netherlands Missionary Society

The Netherlands Missionary Society (Dutch: Nederlandsch Zendelinggenootschap) was a Dutch Protestant missionary society founded in 1797 in Rotterdam that was involved in sending workers to countries such as Indonesia during the Dutch occupation and China during the Qing dynasty.

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Old Protestant Cemetery (Macau)

The Old Protestant Cemetery (Cemitério Protestante) is a cemetery in Santo António, Macau, China.

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Portuguese Macau

Macau (officially the Province of Macau from 1897 to 1976 and later the Autonomous Region of Macau from 1976 to 1999) was a Portuguese colony from the establishment of the first official Portuguese settlement of Macau in 1557 to its handover to China in 1999.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Robert Morrison (missionary)

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". John Robert Morrison and Robert Morrison (missionary) are British expatriates in China and translators of the Bible into Chinese.

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Robert Thom (translator)

Robert Thom (1807 – 14 September 1846) was an English nineteenth century Chinese language translator and diplomat based in Canton (modern day Guangzhou) who worked for the trading house Jardine, Matheson & Co. and was seconded to the British armed forces during the First Opium War (1839 – 1842). John Robert Morrison and Robert Thom (translator) are British expatriates in China.

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Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, commonly known as the Royal Asiatic Society, was established, according to its royal charter of 11 August 1824, to further "the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia." From its incorporation the society has been a forum, through lectures, its journal, and other publications, for scholarship relating to Asian culture and society of the highest level.

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Samuel Dyer

Samuel Dyer (台約爾, 20 February 1804 – 24 October 1843) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China in the Congregationalist tradition who worked among the Chinese in Malaysia. John Robert Morrison and Samuel Dyer are 1843 deaths, 19th-century British translators, British expatriates in China and translators of the Bible into Chinese.

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Taiping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Hakka-led Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.

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Treaty of Nanking

The Treaty of Nanking was an unequal treaty between Great Britain and the Qing dynasty of China to end the First Opium War (1839–1842), signed on 29 August 1842.

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Walter Henry Medhurst

Walter Henry Medhurst (29 April 179624 January 1857), was an English Congregationalist missionary to China, born in London and educated at St Paul's School. John Robert Morrison and Walter Henry Medhurst are British expatriates in China and translators of the Bible into Chinese.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robert_Morrison

Also known as J. R. Morrison, J.R. Morrison, John R. Morrison.

John Robert Morrison, the Glossary

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See also

Chief Secretaries of Hong Kong

Translators of the Bible into Chinese

References