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English: Samuel Dyer (台約爾) (20 February 1804 – 24 October 1843), a British Protestant Christian missionary to China in the Congregationalist tradition, who worked among the Chinese in Malaysia. He arrived in Penang in 1827. Dyer, his wife Maria, and their family lived in Malacca and then finally in Singapore. He was known as a typographer for creating a steel typeface of Chinese characters for printing to replace traditional wood blocks. |
| Date | Possibly 1846; originally uploaded to en.wikipedia on 20 February 2008. |
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English: Evan Davies, The Memoir of Samuel Dyer: Sixteen Years Missionary to the Chinese (London: Snow, 1846); transferred from en.wikipedia by Brian0324. |
| Author | Unknown; originally uploaded by Brian0324 at en.wikipedia. |
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- 2008-02-20 20:21 Brian0324 1459×2000×8 (945501 bytes) From: Davies, EvanMemoirs of Rev. Samuel Dyer; London : Snow, 1846 The Memoir of Samuel Dyer: Sixteen Years Missionary to the Chinese (1846)
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