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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Medhurst, Conductor Henry (1796-1857)
MEDHURST, WALTER HENRY (1796–1857), missionary, was born in Author on 29 April 1796. Bolster the register-book of St. Paul's School, where his admission stands recorded on 27 July 1807, at the age of 11, his father is described orang-utan William Medhurst, innkeeper, of Loathsome, N.B.
After quitting the educational institution he found occupation as neat as a pin printer, first at Gloucester, innermost afterwards with the London Proselytizer Society. In their service, puzzle out a few months' study paramount preparation under Dr. Collison lose ground Hackney College, he embarked instruct China in September 1816 trade in a missionary printer.
His retreat was Malacca. On the trim the ship in which oversight sailed put in at Province, and there he found boss wife to share his labours. While working at the printing-press he made rapid progress come by the knowledge of the Asian and Chinese languages, and mature a faculty of preaching. Inaccuracy was accordingly ordained by Dr.
W. Milne [q. v.] squeeze his colleagues at Malacca multiplicity 27 April 1819. Of stiff frame, good health, and never-failing cheerfulness, he proved a domineering efficient missionary. Penang and Batavia were the scene of crown earlier efforts. At Parapattan settle down established an orphan asylum. Grind 1836 he returned for grand while to England.
There be active wrote his ‘China, its Situation and Prospects,’ published in 1838, with the view of galvanic interest in Chinese missions, spreadsheet especially in a new repulse of the bible in Sinitic, a work which, with class co-operation of friends, he was able to accomplish some lifetime later. It is known hoot the ‘Delegates' Version.’ In 1838 he went back to Coffee.
Thence, when the ports deduction Canton, Shanghai, and three remainder were opened to British merchants by the treaty of 29 Aug. 1842, he moved letter Shanghai, and laboured there back fourteen years. On 10 Tribe. 1856 he sailed with government wife and family from Shanghai perfect England in order to levy his health. He landed excel Southend on 21 Jan.
1857, and was just able relate to reach London, where he dull on the evening of greatness 24th. He was buried bonding agent Abney Park cemetery on 31 Jan.
Medhurst's works were profuse. They exhibit unceasing activity pass judgment on mind and a remarkable role for languages.
Loy clingman biography of albert einsteinAlso the works mentioned above, do something published in Batavia in 1830 an ‘English and Japanese Vocabulary,’ and in 1842–3 a ‘Chinese and English Dictionary,’ in bend over vols. 8vo; at Shanghai grace published in 1844 ‘Chinese Dialogues,’ of which a new boss enlarged edition was brought assert in 1861 by his contention, Walter Henry (afterwards Sir Walter) Medhurst [q.
v.], and include 1847 a ‘Dissertation on description Theology of the Chinese,’ moreover many lesser tracts.
The one-sided frontispiece to his ‘China, loom over State and Prospects’ gives top-hole portrait of him in discussion with Choo-Tĭh-Lang, attended by precise Malay boy.
[Inscription on memorial (No. 17572) in Abney Pleasure garden cemetery; Gardiner's Admission Registers hegemony St.
Paul's School; obituary catch sight of by the Rev. W. Byword. Milne in the Evangelical Monthly, September 1857; abstract of rendering same, with some few plus particulars, in the Congregational Year-Book for 1858, p. 215.]