Robert Morrison, FRS was a British Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist, lexicographer, and translator considered the
Portrait by John Wildman, c. 1820s
Morrison's birthplace in Bullers Green near Morpeth, Northumberland, England
Painting of the Thirteen Factories, c. 1805
Li Shigong (far left) and Chen Laoyi translating the Bible as Morrison looks on, an engraving after George Chinnery's now-lost c. 1828 original.