Robert Sparke Hutchings
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Robert Sparke Hutchings was an English clergyman who initiated the founding in 1816 of Penang Free School, one of the oldest English-medium schools in Southeast Asia, in Penang in present-day Malaysia
Dittisham in Devon, with St. George's Church where Robert Sparke Hutchings was rector
The building that is currently the Penang State Art Gallery in Farquhar Street, George Town, housed Penang Free School in Hutchings' day.
Melchior Leydekker's 1733 translation of the Bible into Malay was revised by Hutchings.
The Raffles Institution, here in a modern building. Hutchings was appointed president of its Malayan College.
Dittisham
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Dittisham is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of the English county Devon. It is situated on the west bank of the tidal River Dart, 2 miles upstream of Dartmouth.
Robert Sparke Hutchings
…the oldest school in Singapore, in 1823 and revised the first complete Bible translation in Malay. Robert Sparke Hutchings was born in the village of Dittisham in Devon, the sixth and youngest child of John Hutchings (c. 1732 – 1802) of Paignton, rector of St. George's Church in Dittisham, and Sarah Sparke (c…
Dittisham seen from Greenway Quay
Dittisham on the River Dart, oil painting by John Wallace Tucker, between 1865 and 1867