MEDHURST  , See also:

• WALTER, HUBERT (d. 1205)
• WALTER, JOHN (1738/9-1812)

WALTER' See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

HENRY (1796-1857), See also:

• ENGLISH

English Congregationalist missionary to See also:

• CHINA

China, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• LONDON

London and educated at St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul's school . He learned the business of a printer, and having become interested in See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• MISSIONS (Lat. missio, a sending)

missions he sailed in '816 for the London Missionary Society's station at Malacca, which was intended to be a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing-centre . He became proficient in See also:

• MALAY

Malay, in a knowledge of the written characters of See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese, and in the colloquial use of more than one of its dialects . He was ordained at Malacca in 1819, and engaged in missionary labours, first at See also:

• PENANG (Pulau Pinang, i.e. Areca-nut Island),

Penang, then at See also:

• BATAVIA

Batavia, and finally, when See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace was concluded with China in 1842, at See also:

• SHANGHAI

Shanghai . There he continued till 1856, laying the See also:

• FOUNDATIONS

foundations of a successful See also:

• MISSION

mission . His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal labour for several years, as one of a See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee of delegates, was in the revision of existing Chinese versions of the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible . The result was a version (in High Wen-li) marvellously correct and faithful to the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original . With See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Stronach he also translated the New Testament into the See also:

• MANDARIN

Mandarin See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect of See also:

• NANKING (" the southern capital ")

Nanking . His Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries (each in 2 vols.) are still valuable, and to him the See also:

• BRITISH

British public owed its understanding of the teaching of Hung-Sew-Tseuen, the See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of the Tai-ping rising (1855—64) . The university of New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York conferred upon him in 1843 the degree of D.D . Medhurst See also:

• LEFT

left Shanghai in 1856 in failing See also:

• HEALTH

health, and died two days after reaching London, on the 24th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1857 . His son, See also:

• SIR

Sir Walter Henry Medhurst (1822-1885), was British See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul at See also:

• HANKOW (" Mouth of the Han ")

Hankow and afterwards at Shanghai .