Walter Henry Medhurst (29 April 1796 – 24 January 1857), was an English Congregationalist missionary to China, born in London and educated at St Paul's...
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Walter Medhurst may refer to: Walter Henry Medhurst (1796–1857), English Congregationalist missionary to China Walter Henry Medhurst (consul) (1822–1885)...
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Sir Walter Henry Medhurst (1822–1885) was a British diplomat in China. Being the son of the prominent British missionary Walter Henry Medhurst, the younger...
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active from 1948 to 1951 Walter Henry Medhurst (1796–1857), English Congregationalist missionary to China Sir Walter Henry Medhurst (1822–1885), British diplomat...
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Radicals (1842), compiled by the English Congregationalist missionary Walter Henry Medhurst (1796–1857), is the second major Chinese–English dictionary after...
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under direct royal governance under Madrid in Spain. By 1832, Rev. Walter Henry Medhurst still noted in his Hokkien dictionary, originally as an account...
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Northern Min, Gan Chinese or Hakka. The term Hokkien was first used by Walter Henry Medhurst in his 1832 Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language...
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Temperance Union David Livingstone – missionary and explorer in Africa Walter Henry Medhurst – revised versions of the Bible for his mission in China Luella...
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visited the London Missionary Society Press. He was warmly greeted by Walter Henry Medhurst and his daughters Mary and Ellen. Wang Tao also met missionaries...
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published. Morrison cooperated with such contemporary missionaries as Walter Henry Medhurst and William Milne (the printers), Samuel Dyer (Hudson Taylor's father-in-law)...
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takers for red-haired genes". The Star. Toronto. 20 September 2011. Walter Henry Medhurst (1832). A Dictionary of the Hok-Këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language...
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Character Classic (Chinese: 新增三字經; Pinyin: Xīnzēng Sānzì Jīng) by Walter Henry Medhurst was first published in 1823 as an aid to missionary education. The...
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nanman and means "southern barbarians". During the 19th century, Walter Henry Medhurst made a reference in his academic work A Dictionary of the Hok-Këèn...
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religion. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-8371-7301-9. Walter Henry Medhurst (1848). An inquiry into the proper mode of rendering the word God...
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Japanese, although some regions retain the [je] pronunciation. Walter Henry Medhurst, who had neither been to Japan nor met any Japanese people, having...
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first proposed by the British philosopher Francis Bacon, and later, Walter Henry Medhurst, and other scholars agreed.[citation needed] Printing, gunpowder...
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syllable onsets. The missionary Walter Henry Medhurst, an early translator of the Bible into Chinese, compiled Medhurst's Chinese and English Dictionary...
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Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language (1832) – Walter Henry Medhurst Chinese–English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language...
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rational creator God." For instance, the missionary and translator Walter Henry Medhurst claimed Chinese religions suffered because "'no first cause' characterizes...
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Adam Smith in 1776. In 1838, the Congregational church missionary Walter Henry Medhurst considered the Chinese exams to be "worthy of imitating." In 1806...
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system are found in a small vocabulary first printed in 1820 by Walter Henry Medhurst, who went on to publish the Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of...
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name Charles Gutzlaff) became part of a group of four people (with Walter Henry Medhurst, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, and John Robert Morrison) who cooperated...
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was able to borrow a copy of China: Its State and Prospects by Walter Henry Medhurst, which he quickly read. About this time, he began studying the languages...
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Kong and China. In 1882, the North Borneo authorities appointed Walter Henry Medhurst as Commissioner for Chinese Immigration in the mission to attract...
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Chinese Vocabulary in Court Dialect" (1844): 內閣, 選舉, 新聞紙, 文法, 領事 Walter Henry Medhurst "English and Chinese Dictionary" (1847-1848): 知識, 幹事, 物質, 偶然, 教養...
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Khema Jakob Rosenfeld Franziska Tausig Margot Fonteyn J. G. Ballard Walter Henry Medhurst Shanghai ghetto Sometimes "Shanghighlanders" in punning reference...
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April 29 Solomon Yeomans Chesley, Canadian politician (d. 1880) Walter Henry Medhurst, missionary in China (d. 1857) April 30 – Adolphe Crémieux, French-Jewish...
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Lambert McKenna (Ireland, 1870–1956) English and Irish bilingual Walter Henry Medhurst (UK/China, 1796–1857) Chinese and English bilingual Igor Mel'čuk...
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of the report of the riot, the British consul in Shanghai, Sir Walter Henry Medhurst took seventy Royal Marines in a man-of-war and steamed up the Yangtze...
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of the report of the riot, the British consul in Shanghai, Sir Walter Henry Medhurst took seventy Royal marines in a man-of-war and steamed up the Yangtze...
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